by Vance Ginn | Sep 23, 2024 | Research
Overview The 2024-25 Frozen Texas Budget would have kept the state’s budget from growing as it is already too big, thereby excessively burdening taxpayers. This also helps quickly achieve the three-step process to eliminate all property taxes over the next decade by...
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 Vance Ginn | Sep 12, 2024 | Texe Lege
Texas at the Crossroads: Sustaining Leadership Amid New Challenges Texas has long been at the forefront of job creation in the U.S., consistently outpacing other states, particularly since the COVID lockdowns. However, recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
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...
