The purpose of this report is to explore ways to reduce expenditures for the public school employee health insurance program. The question is whether the $1 billion dollar per year program is a bane in adding to the depth of the budget deficit or a boon in providing clues to reduce expenditures for all of the state’s health insurance programs costing over $10 billion per year.
Taxes & Spending
Assessing Tax Trends in the City of Dallas
Does history suggest that property taxes are too high in the city of Dallas? And, if so, have local decision-makers actively helped or hurt the situation? To help answer these questions, let’s review the city’s 2024 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) and gather four types of data—i.e., tax levies, local population, total tax rates, and taxable values—over a 10-year time horizon. Using these audited estimates, we can gauge the growth of government (i.e., tax levy trends), assess its reasonability...
February 18, 2026