More Government Intervention Will Not Solve the Problems Facing the Texas Grid
Since 2011, market participants, regulators, and watchers have understood that intermittent energy sources—wind and solar—are causing three major problems in the ERCOT electric market. First, their intermittency has increasingly pushed the grid towards...
Texas Taxpayers Need Urgent Relief
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,...
Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying and Property Tax Relief
The failure of property tax relief efforts over the last six years is a perfect example of how local governments are using taxpayer money to lobby against the interests of Texans. Most local governments have abandoned any semblance of fiscal sanity. This can be...
Texas DOGE Must Expose Fraud, Waste, Abuse, and Excessive Spending
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,...
SB 19: Ending Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying in Texas
For far too long, Texas taxpayers have been forced to foot the bill for lobbyists who often work against their own interests. Taxpayer-funded lobbying by local governments is an unethical practice that drains public funds and undermines the will of the people. ...