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May 2026’s Top 10 Most Expensive School Bonds

Next month, independent school districts (ISDs) will, again, ask voters to approve massive new borrowing schemes that threaten to unleash a wave of tax hikes and bigger bureaucracies.   These fiscal excesses appear widespread too.   Taxpayers in nearly 60 different counties will decide on one or more of the 109 individual propositions up for a vote this election cycle, according to the Texas Bond Review Board’s (BRB’s) bond election database. If these measures are entirely successful,...

Above & Beyond, 2017 Annual Report

The 2017 annual report "Above & Beyond" highlights the Texas Public Policy Foundation's impact, outreach, and finances in 2017. 2017 TPPF Annual Report by texaspolicy on Scribd

Signing Blank Checks with EpiPens

I prescribed EpiPens yesterday, knowing they are overpriced. But I was shocked by how much. This EpiPen I prescribed is for a mother who watched her 11-year-old son break out in hives from an insect bite on his arm. The hives then spread over his body. This time, fortunately, the hives did not spread to...