Since the margin tax’s inception in January 2008, the Texas comptroller’s office has had difficulty accurately estimating its revenue as noted by the cumulative $2.8 billion less in actual collections than estimated.
Increases in the average appraisal value and tax rate in Midland will hurt those with low and fixed income the most, particularly the working poor and elderly, as property taxes rise from factors out of their control.
The question now is whether Congress will have the courage to prevent monies from being spent to support this illegal, unconstitutional, and scientifically flawed 'agreement' that in the end will not prevent the earth’s climate from changing.
The more nuanced truth regarding the relationship between funding and tuition is that there have been mild decreases in legislative funding that have been met by comparatively wild increases in university prices and spending.
But it's a foregone conclusion that no one at the EPA will be held criminally liable in this incident either, and civil lawsuits involving the executive branch are hard to successfully litigate due to 'sovereign immunity' (which means the government can't be sued unless it agrees to be) and added procedural hoops that come with governmental suits.
While these rates have been reduced thanks to Texas’ 2008 reforms, prison ministries continuously report recidivism rates at a fraction of state averages.
It isn’t at all sustainable to assume that each new worker in the private sector could support one new government employee, much less three or four as is the case in Virginia and Maryland.
A new research report shows that just 12 policy mistakes at all levels of government add $546 billion a year in consumer costs.
Penalties for taking a protected species range up to a $50,000 fine and/or a year in federal prison.
For nearly seven years, affected property owners along the river tried to settle these disputed titles with BLM. And for nearly seven years (and counting), BLM failed to come to the table.
To advance the Texas model and improve its competitive advantage by having the best possible business tax climate, the Tax Foundation’s report provides evidence that the margin tax has to go.
Nonetheless, BLM claims all of that is riverbed, and the federal government owns it.