by Vance Ginn | Mar 3, 2025 | 89th TXLege, Texe Lege
Texas taxpayers have an urgent need for property tax relief, which should include a clear path to eliminating school district maintenance and operations (M&O) property taxes—the largest portion of Texans’ property tax bills. Despite claims of historic tax cuts,...
by Vance Ginn | Feb 27, 2025 | Texe Lege
Texas must take advantage of this moment to rein in its bloated government workforce and put taxpayers first. The resignation of 77,000 federal employees out of 2.2 million—and nearly 3 million including contractors—proves what we already knew: government is too big,...
by Vance Ginn | Feb 25, 2025 | Texe Lege
The Texas House sells HB 2 and HB 3 as a package deal for education reform, calling them the “Texas Two-Step.” But this so-called two-step is a misstep. The package prioritizes billions more taxpayer money for a broken public education monopoly while...
by Vance Ginn | Feb 6, 2025 | Texe Lege
Recent proposals by President Donald Trump to establish a U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) and by Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick to remove the cap on Texas’s Economic Stabilization Fund (ESF) are deeply flawed. Both ideas assume that government-run investment...
by Vance Ginn | Feb 3, 2025 | Texe Lege
Texas is experiencing economic growth, but the state government isn’t keeping pace with fiscal responsibility. In December 2024, Texas added 37,000 new jobs, marking its twelfth consecutive month of job gains. Total nonfarm employment reached a record...
