AUSTIN – Texas Public Policy Foundation President and CEO Brooke Rollins announced new leadership for the Foundation’s communications and policy teams today. Chuck DeVore, currently a Senior Fellow in the Foundation’s Center for Fiscal Policy and the outgoing Vice President for Communications, will move to the Vice Presidency for Policy. In this role, he will...
Press Release February 1, 2013AUSTIN – Texas Public Policy Foundation President and CEO Brooke Rollins announced new leadership for the Foundation’s communications and policy teams today. Chuck DeVore, currently a Senior Fellow in the Foundation’s Center for Fiscal Policy and the outgoing Vice President for Communications, will move to the Vice Presidency for Policy. In this role, he will...
Press Release February 1, 2013AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation published its first book in 19 years, The Texas Model: Prosperity in the Lone Star State and Lessons for America, authored by Chuck DeVore, a Vice President and Senior Fellow for Fiscal Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and a former California State Assemblyman. In the book DeVore...
Press Release January 31, 2013AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation published its first book in 19 years, The Texas Model: Prosperity in the Lone Star State and Lessons for America, authored by Chuck DeVore, a Vice President and Senior Fellow for Fiscal Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and a former California State Assemblyman. In the book DeVore...
Press Release January 31, 2013AUSTIN – Texas Gov. Rick Perry delivered his state of the state address this morning and the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) found many significant areas of agreement with the governor’s proposals. Brooke Rollins, TPPF President and CEO said, “Every legislative session we publish our‘Keeping Texas Competitive, A Legislator’s Guide to the Issues.’ In it, we detail...
Press Release January 29, 2013AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation will host a conference call media briefing Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. Central Time to discuss Gov. Rick Perry’s State of the State address. Media will have the opportunity to hear the Foundation’s reaction to the Governor’s agenda, and ask questions of Foundation experts. WHO: Texas Public Policy...
Press Release January 28, 2013AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation will host a conference call media briefing Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. Central Time to discuss Gov. Rick Perry’s State of the State address. Media will have the opportunity to hear the Foundation’s reaction to the Governor’s agenda, and ask questions of Foundation experts. WHO: Texas Public Policy...
Press Release January 28, 2013AUSTIN – Today’s Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) unemployment report is further proof that the Texas Model of doing business leads to prosperity, according to the Texas Public Policy Foundation. The TWC reported that Texas’ unemployment rate fell to 6.1 percent in December, down from 6.2 percent in November and from 7.4 percent one year ago. This marks the fourth...
Press Release January 21, 2013Businesses in Texas shoulder a much bigger share of the state-local tax burden than do businesses in other states, according to a new report from the Texas Comptroller. As a percentage of all state and local business taxes—including the property tax, the sales tax, and the margin tax—Texas businesses paid 64.8 percent of the total load in fiscal 2011, a relatively high mark compared to other large states and the national average (47.9 percent). What’s more, Texas businesses have seen their share of the tax load increase in recent years, up 4.5 percent since fiscal 2007. If steps are not taken to reverse this trend, Texas risks putting its business sector at a further competitive disadvantage nationally and internationally, as well as potentially driving up the cost of goods and services here because, after all, businesses don’t pay taxes, people do. That’s why it’s critical that the legislature make it a priority this session to lighten the load on Texas businesses by eliminating the margin tax, a reform that the Tax Foundation has already said will improve the state’s business competitiveness immensely. Source: State Business Tax Advisory Committee
Press Release January 18, 2013AUSTIN – Though states have an important role to play in local antitrust enforcement, a new study released today by the Foundation, Protecting Innovation: The Role of State Attorneys General in Antitrust Enforcement by Bill Peacock and Josiah Neeley, finds that the increased role of state attorneys general in interstate and high-technology antitrust cases today is a...
Press Release January 18, 2013AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released the report Engulfed by Environmental Crimes: Overcriminalization on the Gulf Coast, that provides an overview of “crimes” in the Gulf Coast states, explaining why overcriminalization along the coast is detrimental to economic liberty and growth, and proposes solutions for reining in the overcriminalization problem. Marc Levin and Vikrant...
Press Release January 15, 2013AUSTIN, TX- The Texas Public Policy Foundation will host a press conference launching a new report, Recasting History: Are Race, Class, and Gender Dominating American History? A Study of U.S. History Courses at the University of Texas and Texas A&M University. The report authored by the National Association of Scholars (NAS) and the Texas Association of Scholars (TAS)...
Press Release January 9, 2013