by Vance Ginn | Oct 7, 2024 | Texe Lege
As Texas faces rising property taxes and record-high government spending, it’s time to reassess the path toward long-term prosperity. Recent data illustrates Texas’ strengths and challenges. In August 2024, Texas maintained a 4.1% unemployment rate, while...
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 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 Bill Peacock | Aug 19, 2024 | Research
Executive Summary The only thing the Texas Legislature must do when they meet every two years is adopt a budget. Not surprisingly, with years of practice they have gotten pretty good at spending taxpayers’ money. For instance, the Legislature appropriated $323.8...
