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Taxes & Spending

Texas’ Constitutional Tax and Expenditure Limit

April 28, 2011

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James Quintero

@JamesQuinteroTX

James Quintero is the policy director for the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Government for the People campaign. Since joining the Foundation in 2008, Quintero has focused extensively on: state & local government spending, taxes, debt, public pension reform, annexation, and local regulations.

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