Even amid the country’s worst economic setback in decades, our updated analysis shows that Texas’ competitive edge over California remains sharp. This paper updates the economic scoreboard we calculated in our study of Texas and California in 2008. Although the policy environment has changed over the last two years, Texas’ edge over California has not.
Taxes & Spending
May 2026’s Top 10 Most Expensive School Bonds
Next month, independent school districts (ISDs) will, again, ask voters to approve massive new borrowing schemes that threaten to unleash a wave of tax hikes and bigger bureaucracies. These fiscal excesses appear widespread too. Taxpayers in nearly 60 different counties will decide on one or more of the 109 individual propositions up for a vote this election cycle, according to the Texas Bond Review Board’s (BRB’s) bond election database. If these measures are entirely successful,...
April 21, 2026