Texas is defending limited government and economic freedom against a federal leviathan bent on strangling the economy in order to prove the primacy of government. To what extent does the federal leviathan depend on Texas, and how does Texas compare to the rest of the world?
Texas DOGE Roars to Life
Nearly one year ago, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law Senate Bill 14 in an effort to “slash regulations, put stricter standards on new regulations that could be costly to businesses, and put a check on the growth of the administrative state.” All worthy goals too considering the Lone Star State’s cumbersome regulatory environment, which recently ranked “as the fifth most-regulated…in the nation, after California,...