The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Director of the Center for Local Governance James Quintero issued the following statement on the Montgomery County Commissioners Court unanimous endorsement yesterday of one of the Texas Legislature’s leading property tax reform bills, Senate Bill 2. Montgomery County is the 11th largest county in Texas.
Press Release February 21, 2017Texas Public Policy Foundation’s (TPPF) Right on Crime project is the focus of a New York Times opinion piece by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tina Rosenberg. The article chronicles how Texas became a national leader on criminal justice reform. Right on Crime is a national campaign to promote successful, conservative solutions on American criminal justice policy—reforming the system to ensure public safety, shrink government, and save taxpayers money.
Press Release February 14, 2017Today the Texas Public Policy Foundation and its allies in the Conservative Texas Budget Coalition at a press conference at the State Capitol called on the 85th Texas Legislature to sustain the momentum for responsible spending. The Coalition proposed three steps: capping the increase in the 2018-19 budget at no more than $218.5 billion based on a 4.5 percent growth in population plus inflation during the last two fiscal years; eliminating the state’s costly business margins tax; and structurally reforming property taxes.
Press Release February 8, 2017Today the Texas Public Policy Foundation and its allies in the Conservative Texas Budget Coalition at a press conference at the State Capitol called on the 85th Texas Legislature to sustain the momentum for responsible spending. The Coalition proposed three steps: capping the increase in the 2018-19 budget at no more than $218.5 billion based on a 4.5 percent growth in population plus inflation during the last two fiscal years; eliminating the stat
Press Release February 8, 2017The Texas Public Policy Foundation and its allies in the Conservative Texas Budget Coalition will hold a press conference THIS MORNING, Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. CST in the Lieutenant Governor’s Press Room at the State Capitol. Members from the Coalition will call on the 85thTexas Legislature to cap the increase in the total 2018-19 budget at no more than $218.5 billion based on a 4.5 percent in population growth plus inflation during the last two fiscal years, eliminate the state’s costly business margins tax, structurally reform property taxes, and highlight other priorities to build on the success of the Texas model.
Press Release February 7, 2017The Texas Public Policy Foundation and its allies in the Conservative Texas Budget Coalition will hold a press conference TOMORROW, Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 9:00 a.m. CST in the Lieutenant Governor’s Press Room at the State Capitol. Members from the Coalition will call on the 85th Texas Legislature to cap the increase in the total 2018-19 budget at no more than $218.5 billion based on a 4.5 percent in population growth plus inflation during the last two fiscal years, eliminate the state’s costly business margins tax, structurally reform property taxes, and highlight other priorities to build on the success of the Texas model.
Press Release February 6, 2017The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF)’s Red River lawsuit is the focus of an article on Foxnews.com. Robert Henneke, General Counsel and Director of the Center for the American Future at TPPF, represents the plaintiffs in the case, which deals with the federal government’s unlawful attempt to take thousands of acres of Texas land from homeowners and ranchers along the Red River. According to the Bureau of Land Management, the land is inside the river and is therefore public land. However, the south bank of the river is about a mile north of where the government says it is.
Press Release February 6, 2017The Texas Public Policy Foundation and its allies in the Conservative Texas Budget Coalition will hold a press conference Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. CST in the Lieutenant Governor’s Press Room at the State Capitol. Members from the Coalition will call on the 85th Texas Legislature to cap the increase in the total 2018-19 budget at no more than $218.5 billion based on a 4.5 percent in population growth plus inflation during the last two fiscal years, eliminate the state’s costly business margins tax, structurally reform property taxes, and highlight other priorities to build on the success of the Texas model.
Press Release February 3, 2017The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Director of the Center for Local Governance James Quintero issued the following statement on Senate Bill 715, the Texas Annexation Reform Act. The bill, filed today, would end forced annexation, streamline voluntary annexation, and repeal limited purpose annexation.
Press Release February 2, 2017Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Fiscal Policy Director Talmadge Heflin and economist Dr. Vance Ginn made the following statements on Senate Bill 17 that would put the business franchise tax, also called the margins tax, on a path to elimination.
Press Release February 2, 2017The videos are now available from the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s 15th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature, which took place from Wednesday, January 11, 2017 to Friday, January 13, 2017 in Austin, TX. This year’s sold-out Policy Orientation featured an array of prominent speakers on the major issues affecting the future of both Texas and the rest of the country as we usher in a new Administration.
Press Release February 2, 2017The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released the paper Budget Cutting Through the Sales Tax Reduction (STaR) Fund by the Center for Fiscal Policy’s director The Honorable Talmadge Heflin and economist Dr. Vance Ginn. The paper explains the need for the Sales Tax Reduction (STaR) Fund and describes how it would work as a mechanism to allocate state surplus dollars in order to reduce the bottom line of the budget while keeping more money in taxpayers’ pocket.
Press Release February 2, 2017