Texas needs to strengthen transparency in state agency rulemakings. Texans already benefit from strong fiscal transparency measures. Texans equally deserve regulatory transparency-disclosure of the cost and effectiveness of regulation imposed by state rules.
Why bring back a crony tax break program in Texas?
Calling business welfare, or crony capitalism, an economic development tool does not change what is happening in such transactions, nor does it make it better policy. In the 87th Session of the Texas Legislature, in 2021, a wonderful thing happened: Chapter 313 of the Texas Tax Code was allowed to expire without lawmakers renewing it....