AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation joined its allies in the Conservative Texas Budget coalition Tuesday in the release of The Conservative Texas Budget. The report recommends capping the growth of state funds and all funds for the 2016-17 biennium at 6.2 percent. The Foundation’s Talmadge Heflin, Director of the Center for Fiscal Policy, and Dr. Vance Ginn, Center for Fiscal Policy Economist, discussed the spending-growth limits at a press conference held on Tuesday at the Foundation offices.
A video of the full press conference is available here:
Members of the coalition include:
- Americans for Prosperity – Texas
- Americans for Tax Reform
- Grassroots America – We The People
- Heritage Alliance
- National Federation of Independent Business – Texas
- Our America Initiative
- R Street Institute
- State Budget Solutions
- Tea Party Caucus Legislative Advisory Committee
- Texas Eagle Forum
- Texans for Fiscal Responsibility
- Texas Public Policy Foundation
- Young Conservatives of Texas
To read more about the coalition, or read the report in full, visit: www.conservativetexasbudget.com.
The Honorable Talmadge Heflin is Director of the Center for Fiscal Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Heflin served 11 terms in the Texas House of Representatives and chaired the House Appropriations Committee in 2003, leading the Texas Legislature’s successful efforts to close a $10 billion budget deficit without a tax increase.
Vance Ginn, Ph.D., is an Economist with the Center for Fiscal Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a non-profit, free-market research institute based in Austin.
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