The restoration of local control can allow for fiscally healthy retirement plans for hard-working Texans.

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.
The restoration of local control can allow for fiscally healthy retirement plans for hard-working Texans.

A permissive regulatory environment is allowing the commodification of children. In the hit TV show, Succession, an entitled, raucous family dukes it out in hopes of inheriting their father’s business empire. Even with all the heightened drama, it captures the essence that succession planning for corporations can be downright ugly. In China, an eccentric tech executive believes...
Every even-numbered year, the state’s Legislative Budget Board (LBB) publishes a helpful, user-friendly summation of the General Appropriations Act (GAA), otherwise known as the state’s two-year budget. On Wednesday, the LBB published the next iteration—its 2024-25 Fiscal Size-Up. From a 30,000 ft. level, this new report provides “a comprehensive review of how tax dollars were...
School bonds are one of the main instruments contributing to Texas’s local government debt, which is currently over half a trillion dollars. Key points: As of 2026, school bond debt in Texas is over $236 billion. In May of 2023, Texas passed 79% of the 245 bond proposals put on the ballot, costing taxpayers $22.9...