Policymakers should be concerned about the size and growth of local government debt in Texas – a contributing factor is that voters do not have enough information provided to them at the ballot box to make an informed decision about new debt issuances. Voters should be provided with basic fiscal facts at the ballot box to better understand how their decisions will affect their community.
Energy & Environment
Curtains of Secrecy: Why the Texas Public Policy Foundation Is Suing the Feds Under FOIA
When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the nation’s Freedom of Information Act into law in 1966, he set a standard that all agencies should be held to—though his and later administrations would struggle to live up to it. “A democracy works best when the people have all the information that the security of the Nation...
November 21, 2022