Over the past decade, Texas has added 1.3 million jobs — the most of any state in the country — and has become the nation's leader in exports. Each year, more companies flock to Texas from nearby states to do business.
As of November 2015, the City of Austin implemented a ban on short-term rentals for all residential single-family homes, unless the owner lives on the premises... Basically, these vacation rentals were deemed 'party homes,' thus the decision to ban them.
Center for Local Governance Policy Analyst Allegra Hill presented testimony on involuntary annexation to the Texas Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Relations. Hill's testimony, in part, reads: Is the invasion of people’s rights—to the extent such an invasion is permitted under current statute—justified in light of the desire for municipal growth? Do the ends justify the means? I would simply submit to you that the answer is no; municipal expansion does not justify bowling over the minority, and depriving people of the right to vote.
Rather than pay 50% more for labor that isn’t 50% more productive, business owners are likely to instead hire more part time workers or ask more productive—and higher paid workers—to fill the gap.
Testimony presented to the House Appropriations Committee to strengthen Texas’ limit on appropriations by the Honorable Talmadge Heflin. Texas has done better economically and fiscally than most states during the last fifteen years. However, one area that still needs improvement is consistently controlling the state’s budget growth. Since all government spending must ultimately be paid for by taxation, limiting budget increases is essential for a competitive economy that supports prosperity.
The report reviews much of what climate apologists insist is true including the myth that 97 percent of all climate scientists agree on global warming. That is a powerful rhetorical point and often quoted by the President, but it is also false.
Testimony presented to the Senate Finance Committee to strengthen Texas’ limit on appropriations by the Honorable Talmadge Heflin. Texas has done better economically and fiscally than most states during the last fifteen years. However, one area that still needs improvement is consistently controlling the state’s budget growth. Since all government spending must ultimately be paid for by taxation, limiting budget increases is essential for a competitive economy that supports prosperity.
Texas is still the special place Mbogo experienced when he arrived, standing as a bastion for freedom in the midst of increasing government encroachment out of Washington. But the fact that we allow cities to shut down businesses and reduce property values without compensation proves we have some work to do.
Vice President of National Initiatives the Honorable Chuck DeVore appeared on the Rusty Humphries Radio Show to discuss criminal justice.
The Honorable Kathleen Hartnett White discusses Stanford’s decision not to divest in fossil fuels on American Family Radio News.
But by 2014, Texas consumers were paying 14 percent less for their electricity, on average, than the rest of the nation. Market deregulation was a success.
The mainstay of base load electric generation at the lowest cost, coal provides social benefits to billions of people and offers the only affordable alternative for the more than 1 billion people who still lack access to electricity.