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Taxes & Spending

Spending limit reform a priority in Texas, finally!

Even with a relatively strong economy and fiscally conservative state government during the last decade, there is room to improve Texas’ stance as the model for individual liberty and economic prosperity. 

April 8, 2015
Taxes & Spending

Educate voters at the ballot box on debt propositions

Voters aren’t provided with enough information at the ballot box to make an informed decision on debt, and it’s helping to create a tidal wave of red ink.

April 7, 2015
Local Government

Mitch McConnell takes on the EPA

Despite the CPP's destructive impact on the Lone Star State, it is unclear whether the "No SIP" bill will pass this session. Some here, although they oppose the Clean Power Plan and federal overreach generally, believe the best strategy is to wait and see. 

April 7, 2015
Economy

What do lower oil prices mean for Texas?

Instead of cheering lower gasoline prices, the buzz is the decline in oil prices will lead to a 1980s-style recession and demise of the Texas model’s success.

April 7, 2015
Energy & Environment

EPA’s unprecedented power grab

Complying with EPA's dictates will prove economically ruinous for many states and will result in a dramatic expansion of EPA authority, transforming it into something like Gosplan, the Soviet Union's old central economic-planning agency.

April 6, 2015
Economy

Tax relief in Texas needed

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas recently provided evidence of continued job creation in Texas, but noted that the pace moderated recently from lower oil prices and an appreciating U.S. dollar.

April 6, 2015
Higher Education

A Texas Solution to the nation’s college debt crisis?

Can the college student-loan debt crisis get any worse? According to the latest Federal Reserve Bank of New York report, the answer is, “Yes, and it already has.”

April 5, 2015
Energy & Environment

Civilization’s greatest threat: Islamist terror or climate policy?

Our president repeatedly asserts that climate change – which now apparently means little more than bad weather - is the greatest and more immediate threat to humanity.

April 3, 2015
Energy & Environment

DeVore: Texas economy puts spotlight on transportation needs

With billions more for transportation coupled with procurement reform this year, Texas drivers may see relief on the road ahead.

March 31, 2015
Higher Education

COMMENTARY: Innovation key to higher education in Texas

Instead, more than half of college students are “nontraditional,” a category that includes such students as those over age 25, those who work full-time, single parents, caregivers and those without a high school diploma.

March 31, 2015
Energy & Environment

Testimony: Express Preemption of Regulation of Oil and Gas Operations

Leigh Thompson's testimony in support of House Bill 40 and Senate Bill 1165 before the Texas Legislature Energy Committee of the House of Representatives.

March 30, 2015
Economy

Long term economic performance matters: Texas triples California’s rate of job growth over the past decade

California’s sluggish long term job growth, with the job growth rate being less than the population growth rate in the state, has contributed to the Golden State’s persistently high official unemployment rate.

March 30, 2015
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