Texas could be facing one of the most significant budget challenges in the state’s history. But, by using a principled approach, the Legislature has the ability to bridge the state’s multi-billion dollar budget shortfall, without raising taxes.
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