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TPPF statement on Comptroller Susan Combs’ final report in the It’s Your Money Series titled Your Money and Pension Obligations

“The Texas Public Policy Foundation applauds the Texas Comptroller’s latest report on state and local government public pension systems. This informative and comprehensive review of Texas’ retirement systems provides policymakers and the public with a significant amount of new data and analysis with which to make intelligent decisions about the direction and stability of Texas’...

Press Release December 6, 2012

Statement by Texas Public Policy Foundation on Sen. DeMint’s pending leadership of the Heritage Foundation

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation, one of America’s premier state-level free-market research institutes, issued the following statement from president and CEO Brooke Rollins, on the news of Sen. Jim DeMint’s announced move from the U.S. Senate to head up the Heritage Foundation: “We view the Heritage Foundation as America’s flagship free-market public policy...

Press Release December 6, 2012

October employment report demonstrates continuing vitality of Texas economy

“October’s job report shows a Texas economy that continues to thrive. Almost every sector of the Texas economy is showing strong gains and the state is making fast progress toward returning to what economists define as full employment. “The next few months will be critical, as we see whether the Texas Model will be able...

Press Release November 16, 2012

TPPF releases two papers calling for reform of the Clean Air Act

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation released two papers today that make the case for reform of the Clean Air Act (CAA). “The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is using the Clean Air Act to transform our economy rather than to provide meaningful protection of human health, its reason for existence,” said Kathleen Hartnett White,...

Press Release November 15, 2012

Statement from the Texans for a Conservative Budget coalition

“Today’s LBB vote for a state spending limit greater than population growth and inflation opens the door to a budget that increases the cost of government on every Texan.  We appreciate the verbal commitments today by Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Senate Finance Chairman Tommy Williams that the Senate’s budget will not pass through that...

Press Release November 15, 2012

Foundation supports Senate Bill 11 welfare reforms

“Senate Bill 11 strikes the right balance between civic generosity and personal responsibility.  It strengthens the work requirements and personal responsibility agreements so that welfare recipients are engaging in activities that will lead to personal success and financial independence. “Texas taxpayers should not be asked to subsidize a welfare recipient’s poor lifestyle choices that sabotage...

Press Release November 13, 2012

TPPF experts release study analyzing the cost of federal Production Tax Credit and other renewable energy subsidies in Texas

AUSTIN – Texas Public Policy Foundation analysts Bill Peacock and Josiah Neeley today released a new report, The Cost of the Production Tax Credit and Renewable Energy Subsidies in Texas. The Production Tax Credit (PTC), a federal tax credit which subsidizes the production of renewable energy, is set to expire at the end of 2012....

Press Release November 12, 2012

Foundation supports Estes legislation to repeal Texas margin tax

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation applauds Sen. Craig Estes for his filing of Senate Bill 113, repealing Texas’ margin tax, and offers its full support of the legislation. “The Texas margin tax is an experiment that has failed,” said Talmadge Heflin, Director of TPPF’s Center for Fiscal Policy. “We look forward to working...

Press Release November 12, 2012

TPPF congratulates Barack Obama on his reelection as President of the United States

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation congratulates Barack Obama on his reelection as President of the United States. “The American people have chosen our direction, and we congratulate Barack Obama on his reelection,” said Foundation Chairman Wendy Gramm, “Whatever our political persuasion, the fact of fifty-seven quadrennial national elections without interruption over two centuries...

Press Release November 7, 2012

TPPF to testify before Senate Education and Criminal Justice Committees

  Center for Effective Justice policy analyst Jeanette Moll will offer recommendations to improve Texas’ school discipline practices AUSTIN – Jeanette Moll, policy analyst for the Center for Effective Justice at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, will testify before a joint hearing of the Senate Education and Criminal Justice Committees at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, October...

Press Release October 30, 2012

Foundation: Best “fix” for Texas margin tax is to eliminate it

AUSTIN – The best solution for the problems associated with Texas’ margin tax is to phase out the tax over the next five years, according to a paper released today by the Texas Public Policy Foundation. “A lack of revenue is not the problem with the margin tax,” said Talmadge Heflin, director of the Center...

Press Release October 30, 2012

Texas Public Policy Foundation experts available for analysis during school finance trial

AUSTIN – The school finance trial beginning Monday in Travis County State District Court will have major implications for the education of Texas public school students, according to experts from the Texas Public Policy Foundation. “Given the number of districts asserting inequities in our current system of funding public schools through local property taxes, this...

Press Release October 22, 2012