"The Economic Stabilization Fund, or Rainy Day Fund, represents billions of dollars taken from Texas taxpayers that would otherwise be sustaining our economy and prosperity. The imperative for the 83rd Texas Legislature is to return that money to Texans, rather than spend it on ongoing obligations that the state would ordinarily fund through general revenue. The right conversation to be having isn't how to spend ESF's Texas-taxpayer money, but how to cut taxes so that money ends up back where it should be: in the hands of individual Texans who will use it to build their dreams."