by Vance Ginn | Aug 25, 2023 | News, State
Texas is a leader in job creation over the last year and since February 2020. But Texas faces major headwinds as the recently ended 88th Legislature looked more like California than what is expected from the free-market bastion of hope and prosperity in Texas. This...
by Vance Ginn | Jul 17, 2023 | 88th TXLege, News, Research
Overview Texans for Fiscal Responsibility proposed the Frozen Texas Budget, which would keep the stateβs budget from growing. The budget is already too big, thereby excessively burdening taxpayers. TFR also provided a three-step process to eliminate all property taxes...
by Andrew McVeigh | Jun 15, 2023 | 88th TXLege, News, State
The first-called special session has officially crossed the two-week mark, and with that, not much has changed regarding actual progress to bring down the skyrocketing tax bills of Texans. Among the various bills, property tax relief plans, political rhetoric,...
by Jeramy Kitchen | Jun 1, 2023 | 88th TXLege, News, Texe Lege
Lost in all of the noise and chaos surrounding the 88th Legislative Session is the fact that Republican lawmakers, who have enjoyed a comfortable majority in the Texas Legislature for the last two decades, ushered in the biggest spending increase in Texas history this...
by TFR Staff | Jun 1, 2023 | 88th TXLege, News, Podcast - Taxpayer Talks
Episode Description π° In our FINAL EPISODE of this season of π§ππ«π£ππ¬ππ₯ π§ππππ¦, we are joined by special guests Vance Ginn, Ph.D., and Bill Peacock to discuss the 88th Legislative Session, what happened, what did not happen, the good, the bad, and ugly outcomes, as well...