Policy Perspective: The 2016-17 Texas Budget: It’s Not a Conservative Texas Budget Yet

Vance Ginn, Ph.D., is an accomplished free-market economist who works to let people prosper. He is the founder and president of Ginn Economic Consulting where he provides high-quality research and trusted insights on how to affect change at the federal, state, and local levels. Ginn’s experience includes time in public policy, government, and academia. He is a fellow or scholar at several think tanks, including at Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) and Americans for Tax Reform.

He previously served as the associate director for economic policy (“chief economist”) of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, 2019-20, where he advised the OMB’s senior staff on economic and fiscal policy matters, resulting in $4.6 trillion in savings over a decade and the need for a fiscal rule in the President’s FY 2021 Budget.

Ginn is the former chief economist at TPPF and policy director for TPPF’s Alliance for Opportunity campaign.