The Foundation recently published its first ever Policymakers' Guide to Corporate Welfare. Over the coming weeks, I'll be highlighting various types of corporate welfare using excerpts from the Guide. Today, we'll examine the question, What is Corporate Welfare?
American higher education is in a crunch and the demise of federalism has contributed to this dilemma.
According to the New York Times, it won’t be long before we’ll all be swimming to work.
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar released the Biennial Revenue Estimate 2018-19 report on January 9, 2017, which acts as a guidepost for how much revenue the 85th Texas Legislature has available. Given the state’s constitution requires a balanced budget, the report sets the stage for legislators on the amount of revenue available to appropriate and cut...
As residents of high-tax, high-spending regions continue to relocate to the Lone Star State, the virtues of the Texas approach seem self-evident.
Repeal will give our healthcare system a chance to do what it is actually supposed to do: care for us.
Policing is about protecting the rights of individuals while maintaining order in a free and civil society.
Years of liberal thought and management at the local level have created major systemic problems that threaten the Texan way of life. On the fiscal front, cities, counties, school districts, and special districts have accumulated a staggering amount of debt; skyrocketing property tax bills are among the worst in the nation; local spending is growing...
There are a host of good reasons to “repeal” the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare). “Replace” is an entirely different matter.
When it comes to Texas’ public retirement systems, one of my greatest concerns is that there are other ticking time-bombs, like the DPFP, out there getting ready to explode. It’s not just Dallas’ pension plan that’s taken on excessive risk to chase high yield in a low-yield environment.
The rationale behind turning healthcare over to the states is straightforward.
It is only in the light of the simple superiority of truth-seeking and the indispensability of freedom for such seeking that the possibilities and limitations of our other freedoms—moral, political, and economic—come into proper focus.