Taxes & Spending
SB 9: Time for a Conservative Texas Spending Limit
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July 22, 2017
Taxes & Spending
A Matter of Priorities: Austin’s $15,000 Program to Embed Artists in City Departments
Texas’ property tax burden is enormous. In 2015, more than 4,100 local taxing entities soaked taxpayers for $52.2 billion in property taxes. That’s enough to ding every man, woman, and child in Texas for $1,900 or cost a family of four about $8,000. Most agree that the burden is too high, but attempts at easing...
July 21, 2017
Taxes & Spending
Progress Texas Gets it Wrong on Local Control
The far left group Progress Texas is upset that the Texas Legislature looks poised to rein in out-of-control local governments. Here’s what they wrote yesterday: The Republican-led Legislature will step up its efforts to pre-empt decisions of local voters on issues ranging from local taxes to tree protection, bathroom use, annexation and driving while texting....
July 20, 2017
Taxes & Spending
A Matter of Priorities: Cities Spend Millions to Lobby Against Taxpayers
Texas’ property tax burden is enormous. In 2015, more than 4,100 local taxing entities soaked taxpayers for $52.2 billion in property taxes. That’s enough to ding every man, woman, and child in Texas for $1,900 or cost a family of four about $8,000. Most agree that the burden is too high, but attempts at easing...
July 20, 2017
Health Care
Don’t ‘Prop Up’ Collapsing Obamacare!
Not only can the states do a better job than Washington, the states have a constitutional right to decide their own fate.
July 19, 2017
Taxes & Spending
A Matter of Priorities: Houston’s $260 k Showers
Putting reasonable restraints on the growth of Texas’ property tax will not harm public safety, but it may force local governments to better prioritize their budgets and stop spending like drunken sailors. And that’s something we should all support.
July 19, 2017
Higher Education
Draining The Higher-Ed Swamp: The Case For Closing Evergreen State College
With its announcement that liberal education at Evergreen takes its bearings from the requirements of “Social Justice,” the veil drops and the campus’s recent meltdown is seen for what it is: the putting into practice of what Evergreen proudly teaches.
July 19, 2017
Criminal Justice
Texas: Less crime, lower taxes and cleaner air
Had Ms. Hubler looked beyond the ubiquitous Lone Stars, she would have seen something else: liberty – the kind that doesn’t require other people’s money.
July 19, 2017
Taxes & Spending
Fiscal Recap of the 85th Texas Legislature’s Regular Session & Special Session Preview
With the regular session of the 85th Legislature behind us, let us consider how effective they were at practicing fiscal responsibility based on the legislative priorities of the 14 member organizations of the Conservative Texas Budget Coalition. The Conservative Texas Budget As developed by the Conservative Texas Budget Coalition, a Conservative Texas Budget (CTB) is...
July 18, 2017
Health Care
What killed Senate health care bill? Liberal Medicaid alarmism
But the left’s hyperbolic rhetoric, coupled with some pretty apparent hypocrisy, not only helped kill the Senate health bill. It did the American people a disservice by detracting from the debate on health care that our country deserves.
July 18, 2017
Economy
Special session may be a good investment for Texans
Citizens usually dread when their elected representatives gather to pass new laws because the result is usually higher taxes, more regulations and less freedom, but the upcoming special session provides a unique opportunity for the Texas Legislature to move in the direction of liberty and opportunity. That would be an investment well worth making.
July 18, 2017
Health Care
A health care bailout for insurers paves the way to single-payer
We must not continue to have insurers serve as nothing more than another long arm of the state. Single payer health care is hardly distinguishable from that involving highly subsidized “third parties,” and yet that is precisely where the current GOP train is heading.
July 17, 2017