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On Monday, the Texas Senate State Affairs Committee considered legislation seeking to ban the practice of taxpayer-funded lobbying statewide. Though the legislation was left pending, it is likely to be passed out of committee and considered by the overall Senate...
https://youtu.be/Lg_w3iLmf6Y Episode Description π° In our fifth episode of π§ππ πͺπππ πππππ, we discuss the Texas Property Tax Relief Act of House Bill 2 being heard in the Texas House Ways & Means Committee as well as the proposed ban on taxpayer-funded lobbying,...
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility (TFR) recently published a new report revealing the abysmal numbers related to property tax levies released by the Texas comptroller's office. The major takeaway? The Texas Legislature continues to trumpet their "historic tax reform"...
https://youtu.be/9O5wGYFoGJ0 Episode Description π° In this episode of π§ππ«π£ππ¬ππ₯ π§ππππ¦, we discuss the upcoming bill filing deadline as a part of the ongoing 88th Legislative Session, what priority legislation has been filed that would be beneficial to Texas taxpayers,...
Earlier this week, Texas taxpayers bore witness to yet another effort to revive the now-defunct largest corporate welfare program in Texas, the Chapter 313 tax abatement program. To make matters worse, Republican leadership in both chambers of the Legislature and the...
The fiscal watchdog organization Truth in Accounting (TIA) recently published its latest Financial State of the Cities Report for 2023. The report analyzed the financial health of the top 75 cities in America. βThe report found that 50 cities did not have enough money...