by Andrew McVeigh | Sep 18, 2026 | State
Every penny should be returned to Texas taxpayers. Governor Greg Abbott announced Friday1 that Texas will receive $7.5 billion from the federal government to reimburse border security costs Texas taxpayers carried during the Biden administration. After speaking with...
by Andrew McVeigh | Sep 4, 2026 | Local
Lubbock is preparing to raise city property taxes on local taxpayers, again. The rate proposed for 20261 is $0.513421 per $100 of valuation, which is above the no-new-revenue rate of $0.475154 and just under the voter-approval rate of $0.513447. Because the...
by Andrew McVeigh | Aug 28, 2026 | Local
Harris County is Proposing an 11.8% Spending Increase along with Higher Property Taxes. Harris County is considering adopting a Fiscal Year 2027 budget1 of nearly $3.1 billion. That is roughly $327 million more than the nearly $2.8 billion general-fund budget2 the...
by Andrew McVeigh | Aug 27, 2026 | State
The Project Seeks to Reform How Texas Collects Taxes Texas Comptroller Don Huffines announced on August 181 a package of tax-administration reforms he is calling the Taxpayer First Project. The Comptroller’s office said the new policies, “collectively known as the...
by Andrew McVeigh | Aug 25, 2026 | Federal
The United States crossed $40 trillion in total public debt on August 18, 2026.1 The Treasury’s Debt to the Penny series2 showed a whopping $40,047,425,768,420.22 that day, up from just under $40 trillion the day before. Out of that historic figure, $32.3 trillion is...
