by Vance Ginn | Sep 17, 2024 | Texe Lege
The State of Texas is pouring unprecedented amounts of taxpayer money into public education with little to show for it. From the 2014-15 school year, to the 2022-23 school year, total education spending surged 53% to $92.4 billion, while per-student spending...
by TFR Staff | Sep 12, 2024 | Texe Lege
As Laurel Jordan Swift campaigns for a seat in the State House for District 121, she’s positioning herself as a champion for taxpayers. However, a closer look at Jordan Swift’s personal and financial history reveals a troubling pattern of fiscal...
by Andrew McVeigh | Sep 4, 2024 | Texe Lege
Texas families are facing an affordability crisis that is being exacerbated by property taxes: a never-ending tax that, fundamentally, serves as a form of perpetual rent to the government. While the Legislature has taken steps recently to address the rising...
by TFR Staff | Aug 28, 2024 | News
Last month, the City of Austin proposed a massive city budget of $5.9 billion, an increase by over $400 million from the previous year. As reported here at Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, implementation of this radically careless budget would cost Austinites an...
by Andrew McVeigh | Aug 22, 2024 | Featured, Texe Lege
The American Dream Land ownership has always been deeply intertwined with the American identity. From the earliest days of settlement, land was seen as foundational to liberty, independence, self-determination, and economic opportunity. Colonists and immigrants...
