The Freedom to Own Property: Reforming Texas’ Local Property Tax

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.

Vance Ginn, Ph.D., is the Chief Economist at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and is the Policy Director for the Foundation’s Alliance for Opportunity campaign, which is a multi-state poverty relief initiative. Vance formerly served as the Associate Director for Economic Policy of the Office of Management and Budget at the Executive Office of the President, 2019-2020. He has appeared on several leading national and state news shows. His commentaries have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Washington Post, National Review, and other national and state publications.