Legislators should avoid the temptation to spend every taxpayer dollar available by passing conservative budgets while keeping taxes low, as they did this past session, so that the Texas model can continue to foster economic opportunity for all. If they do this, there’s no doubt Texas will keep its high credit ratings.
Among 106 nations, Taiwan leads the way in patent production per capita over the past decade, followed closely by Japan and the United States.
Texans have had to pay higher gasoline prices and incur much damage from this antiquated 40-year ban that should end immediately, which a bill in Congress would do but looks dead on arrival at the White House.
The final oral arguments for the current school finance litigation were heard before the Texas Supreme Court on September 1st 2015. This amicus brief explains how our state can make education more productive for Texas children.
Solitary confinement, which segregates inmates in a 60-square-foot cell for up to 23 hours a day alone, has consistently shown to increase crime at a much greater cost to the taxpayer.
Kids can’t wait for our three- to five-year plans to succeed. Opportunity isn’t something you put on hold; either we have it or we’ve lost it. This is why parental choice is urgent. Rep. Bohac is absolutely correct when he concluded that school choice legislation must be the top priority for the next Texas Legislature.
Economists consider employment to be a lagging economic indicator.
Local property rights restrictions are a big driver of cost of living differences between states, while the degree of urbanization—oft-used by blue-state progressives to excuse the high cost of housing in the states they run—has no statistical effect.
Before the bankruptcy notices begin to arrive at their doors, many American colleges and universities need to look at where they can cut excess spending and pass these savings on to their students and faculty.
CO2 is an odorless, invisible, beneficial, and natural gas lacking any characteristics of a pollutant.
The final oral arguments for the current school finance litigation were heard before the Texas Supreme Court on September 1st 2015. This amicus brief explains how our state can make education more productive for Texas children.
Open access to government is a key to accountable representation. The International Budget Partnership (IBP) recently released a report ranking the U.S. fifth best in effective governance and transparency. In another report by the U.S. PIRG Education Fund and Frontier Group, Texas ranks 13th in budget transparency. Despite these high marks, there is clearly more work both could do to provide real-time, online access to budget documents.