Using utility bill surcharges to fund government programs is a surreptitious way to tax, especially when elected representatives set up an autopilot system so they can avoid accountability at the ballot box.
Center for Local Governance Director James Quintero's testimony on local ordinance integrity presented to the Senate Committee on Intergovernmental Relations.
Texas’ relatively low tax burden has helped create an economic environment that brings people worldwide and from other states here for the opportunity to prosper.
UnitedHealth, the nation's largest insurer, recently announced it expects to lose more than $500 million on the Obamacare exchanges this year — after losing $475 million last year.
Too many universities today do not 'challenge the norm.' They are the norm. And the elected representatives of the people are beginning to shout, 'Enough!'
Aversion to “Big Government” is something that resonates quite candidly throughout the Lone Star State—just try to extol the wonders of Washington to see a Texan’s eye’s roll.
Annexation without representation—this is the unfortunate reality some Texans face as big city governments annex rural property owners to alleviate some of their own mounting debt and pension problems.
The city of Houston released a new report that pegged the city’s pension liabilities at $5.6 billion in FY 2015, billions more than in the previous fiscal year.
But they can and should refuse if they care at all about their states’ long-term fiscal health and, more importantly, the health of their current Medicaid patients.
Public pension debt continues to soar, but community stakeholders in some of Texas’ biggest cities can’t do anything to bring down the swelling.
The railroad company CSX reported this week that its fourth-quarter revenue fell again by 13% as a result of the 32% drop in coal volume.
This month, 67 percent of likely United States voters answered 'wrong track' when asked the simple question: 'Do you think the country is heading in the right direction or on the wrong track?'