by Jeramy Kitchen | Nov 1, 2022 | Texe Lege
Texas elected officials like to point out the economic success the state has found in the last few decades. It is true the state has an economic climate that many businesses and individuals across the world and the United States find attractive. But increasingly, more...
by Jeramy Kitchen | Oct 27, 2022 | News, State
The Texas House Appropriations Committee met Wednesday in what is likely to be the last public hearing they have before the next legislative session, which is set to begin in January of 2023. One of the items discussed was an update from the newly created Broadband...
by Jeramy Kitchen | Oct 25, 2022 | Featured, Texe Lege
For all of Texas’ economic successes, the ever-increasing property tax burden on Texas taxpayers casts a long and dark shadow. In 2021, the Tax Foundation reported that Texas had the sixth most burdensome property tax in the United States. Just one year earlier,...
by Jeramy Kitchen | Oct 12, 2022 | Texe Lege
With only a month before the November general election, we surveyed subscribers of our weekly email, The Fiscal Note, about the issues they consider most likely to impact their decisions at the ballot box. The question posed to subscribers of The Fiscal Note was as...
by Jeramy Kitchen | Oct 6, 2022 | Federal, News
$31 trillion. Written another way, $31,000,000,000,000. Sadly, milestones like these seem to have become all too regular. They are almost as certain as the political theatre performed by the U.S. Congress every few months over whether or not to raise the debt ceiling....
