On Friday, the Texas Public Policy Foundation took aim at the City of Austin’s tragically flawed short-term rental (STR) ordinance, filing suit in Travis County District Court. Suing the city is not a decision that was made in haste; it was determined to be absolutely necessary to protect Austinites’ property rights, economic liberties, and the basic freedoms of privacy and movement taken for granted by most Texans.
Despite the massive drop in oil prices (the average price of oil dropped from $105.78 in June 2014 to $37.34 in December 2015), the Texas economy has continued to grow rapidly, outpacing the national trend and most of its economic contemporaries.
If Americans care about restraining this lawless assertion of federal regulatory power, the most important bill in Congress right now is H.R. 3880, introduced late last year by Rep. Gary Palmer (R-Ala.).
Joe Luppino-Esposito comments onthe White House forcing college applications to no longer ask applicants for criminal history. Aired June 16 on The Scott Adams Show, and June 17 WFYL 1180 and Red State Talk Radio.
The Texas economy has performed relatively well during much of the past fifteen years regarding economic output and job creation under a fiscally responsible system of low taxes and smart regulation. However, this Texas model can be strengthened to support greater prosperity by reforming the state’s weak constitutional spending limit.
While Democrats are in hock to radical environmentalism, Steve Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White’s Fueling Freedom, perhaps the most important book of this otherwise dismal election yea?r, provides the ideas around which Republicans can unite and regroup.
It's time Congress did its job and clarified the scope of the CWA. If it doesn't, a growing contingent of Supreme Court Justices seems ready and able to flush the Clean Water Act.
Motorists are telling tales of roadside shakedowns, but not from masked bandits and not in days gone by. These encounters are with law enforcement — in 2016. They often start over minor traffic violations. But many end with citizens forced to defend themselves, their money seized. They find themselves stuck in a system where the presumption of innocence is tossed aside.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation testified in favor of the legislation, and we still support the policy behind it. However, with automatic license plate readers, officers can now round these warrants up rapidly, giving motorists the "silver or the lead" deal on the side of the road: Pay the fine or go to jail. Changes to how readers can be used are necessary to preserve the original intent of this legislation.
Are your property taxes too high? Are they not only high, but growing fast too? Shouldn’t there be some sort of protection against being taxed out of your home? Those are just some of the questions raised by the Texas Senate’s Select Committee on Property Tax Reform & Relief in a series of recent interim...
Given that oil prices remain less than half of what they were at their peak, all those arguing that the Texas model will fail are just wrong.
NPR's Morning Edition features a story on the land dispute between the federal government and the landowners, represented by the Texas Public Policy's Center for the American Future, fighting to protect their private property and homes.