The Lone Star State does not have to stand alone in reforms. The federal government and other states should learn from these successes and follow the lead of the Texas model.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s mission “is to promote and defend liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise in Texas and the nation by educating and affecting policymakers and the Texas public policy debate with academically sound research and outreach.” In support of this mission, I had the honor of being invited to give a keynote speech during the “State of the Economy” roundtable discussion during last week’s 52nd Annual Missouri Valley Economic Association (MVEA) meetings in Kansas City, Missouri.
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.
At the state level, legislators have passed bills that assign a default level of mens rea in order to protect citizens from wrongful prosecutions.
Thanks to the Supreme Court and the 5th Circuit, Texans can enjoy the return of the Whooping Cranes this winter, and breathe a little easier knowing we kept the Environmental Protection Agency out of the State in at least one way.
While the court mulls over the particulars of the challenges before it, Americans have an opportunity to rethink whether administrative agencies like the EPA should determine the boundaries of their own authority in the first place.
College is not a commodity. So understood, college is not for everybody.
The federal government taxes $0.184 on a gallon of gasoline and $0.244 for diesel with about 40 percent of the $50 billion spent annually going to programs earmarked by Congress, such as urban rail systems.
This spending included bailing out banks and an almost trillion-dollar stimulus package contributing to a 70 percent increase in the national debt to $18.2 trillion.
In 1982 the United States under President Ronald Reagan was massively recapitalizing the military, including America’s nuclear weapons arsenal. The former Soviet Union didn’t like it one bit, and resolved to blunt Reagan’s efforts.
How is it that Texans sign a paper and obtain documentation of an agreement when purchasing a burger, but written consent in not required statewide to search private property without a warrant?
For nearly a decade, states like Texas have proven that we can increase public safety and reduce significant correction costs by investing in alternatives to incarceration for low-level, non-violent offenders.