Testimony: Lower the Expense, Not the Bar

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"Testimony: Lower the Expense, Not the Bar" is Center for Economic Freedom policy analyst Kathleen Hunker's testimony on House Bill 2045.

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Family, then finances—and opportunity. Those are what brought Lianne Halpern back to tiny Shamrock, a small, dusty stop on the famous Route 66 in the Texas panhandle. Like generations of Americans before, Lianne and her family had traveled west along that route in search of the golden promises of California. Lianne’s father worked in the...

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