AUSTIN – Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation released a report by Policy Analyst Kathleen Hunker examining how the rise in property taxes has created a steady demand for market alternatives to the delinquency process. The report, “Tax Lien Transfers: A Reasonable Means of Rectifying Property Tax Obligations,” outlines a market-based solution for property owners...
Press Release December 1, 2014AUSTIN – Today, The Honorable Talmadge Heflin, Director of the Center for Fiscal Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and former chairman of the Texas House Committee on Appropriations, and Dr. Vance Ginn, economist for the Center for Fiscal Policy, issued the following statements on the Legislative Budget Board’s (LBB) adoption of a recommended...
Press Release December 1, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation and its allies will hold a press conferenceTOMORROW, Tuesday, December 2nd, at 10:00 a.m. CST, in the Senate Press Room of the Texas State Capitol. Policy experts will call for decisive action from the 84th Texas Legislature on school choice in the Lone Star State. The myths about...
Press Release December 1, 2014“Texas continues to add jobs at a healthy rate. During the last twelve months, employers across this great state created a record 421,900 net nonfarm jobs. Additionally, the state’s unemployment rate has fallen by 1.1 percent to 5.1 percent during the last year, making it at or below the national average for a remarkable 94 consecutive months." –Vance Ginn
Press Release November 21, 2014The lessons for Texas and the other states are clear: it is impossible to conceive of Washington, D.C., arriving at — and still less enacting and enforcing — a workable and just solution to the immigration crisis. This is not at bottom a function of particular parties: it is a systemic policy paralysis in D.C. that has endured for half a century.
Press Release November 20, 2014Kathleen Hartnett White, Distinguished Senior Fellow-in-Residence and Director at the Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, speaks today at the 2014 Deloitte Oil & Gas Conference.
Press Release November 18, 2014The panel, “Markets and Teacher Compensation,” will be held during TPPF’s 13th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature on Thursday, January 8, 2015 at 3:25 p.m. CST at the Sheraton Austin Hotel in the Capitol View Terrace North.
Press Release November 18, 2014The proposed rule dramatically expands the Agencies’ regulatory authority, to the detriment of property rights and of federalism. The proposed definition violates the Clean Water Act and exceeds the federal government’s authority under the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Press Release November 18, 2014A possible $1 billion general revenue bill due in early 2015 has legislators looking for options.
Press Release November 12, 2014A possible $1 billion general revenue bill due in early 2015 has legislators looking for options.
Press Release November 12, 2014Lieutenant Governor-Elect Dan Patrick promised to advance school choice in the upcoming legislative session saying, “I’m going to pass school choice because I am not going to take ‘no’ for an answer.” To discuss questions about whether students should be entitled to select the school that best fits their needs and how school choice would impact Texas ISDs and the Texas economy, the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Education Freedom will host the panel “School Choice and the Texas Economy” at the 13th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature. The panel will take place on Thursday, January 7, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. CST at the Sheraton Austin Hotel in the Capitol View Terrace North.
Press Release November 12, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation will host a media conference-call briefingTOMORROW, Wednesday, November 12, at 10:00 a.m. Central Time to discuss the Texas’ 2014-15 state spending trends, which show the state is likely to exceed its constitutional spending limit unless reasonable steps are taken. Busting Texas’ 2014-15 spending limit would raise the cost of...
Press Release November 11, 2014