AUSTIN – The 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. 

WHO:

 

 

 

 

 

Talmadge Heflin, Director, Center for Fiscal Policy, TPPF

Vance Ginn, Economist, Center for Fiscal Policy, TPPF

Jerome Greener, State Director, Americans for Prosperity – Texas

Josiah Neeley, Senior Fellow & Texas Director, R Street Institute

Brendan Steinhauser, Executive Director, Liberty Action Texas

Caroline Chadwick, Chair, Young Conservatives of Texas

WHAT:

 

Press Conference on the Conservative Texas Budget Coalition’s Legislative Agenda. 

WHEN:

 

Tuesday, February 7, 2017  

10:00 a.m. Central Time

WHERE:   

Lt. Governor’s Press Room (Room 2E.9)

Texas State Capitol

A Q&A time will be provided.

For more information about the Conservative Texas Budget, please visit: www.conservativetexasbudget.com

The Honorable Talmadge Heflin is Director of the Center for Fiscal Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

Vance Ginn, Ph.D., is an Economist in 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, Texas.

 

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