Veritas, the quarterly publication of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, highlights the Foundation's role in the current 85th Legislature, how the Foundation plans to empower states and restore economic opportunity to all Americans, and how education savings accounts can transform Texan children and families. Veritas also profiles new center directors Chip Roy & Brandon Logan, addresses Millennials...
We want states to reduce spending, yet Washington rewards them—with federal dollars—when they spend more!
Testimony by Brandon Logan, J.D., CWLS before the House Human Services Committee on Community-Based Foster Care.
The latest report from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) shows that many states’ economies improved in the third quarter of 2016. Real gross domestic product (GDP), a measure of inflation-adjusted economic output, increased in 48 states and the District of Columbia. This contributed to a faster U.S. annualized economic growth rate of 3.5 percent...
Texas doesn’t have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem. By achieving the goals outlined by Governor Abbott to restrain spending, the 85th Legislature can take steps to create the STaR Fund and put the margins tax on a path to death as quickly as possible.
In a statewide poll done for the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Baselice & Associates asked 922 registered Texas voters (+/- 3.2% margin of error) from Jan. 22 to 29, 2017, the following question: “Civil asset forfeiture is when the state or federal government takes and keeps a person’s property without necessarily charging them with any...
Read Brooke Rollins' on title insurance she sent to Texas Senators.
Don’t start fussing over the details. There it is – a simple workable U.S. health care system, understandable by anyone, fiscally sustainable, responsive to local needs, that restores “power to the people,” as the new president promised in his Inaugural speech
Unfunded liabilities, or the difference between what’s been promised to future retirees and what’s actually on hand to provide for those benefits, surged to $66.5 billion, according to the Pension Review Board’s latest actuarial figures for January 2017. That’s an increase of $3.2 billion since the last report in November 2016 and over $6 billion...
Too often, well-intentioned, conservative executives end up using federal power to heal the wounds caused by the very same bludgeon—federal power.
Answer: Quite poorly. According to the Bond Review Board’s latest annual report, Texas’ local debt per capita ($8,350) ranks as the 2nd highest amount owed among the top ten most populous states. Only New York’s per capita amount ($10,646) ranked higher in the latest ratings. In terms of the aggregate amount owed by Texas’ local...