“While the debate over the margin tax’s constitutionality has been settled, now the Texas Legislature can focus on the important discussion of how to fix its practical defects. We welcome the Legislature looking at ways to make the tax more user-friendly, but a true fix means making it less costly to comply – not changing...
Press Release November 28, 2011AUSTIN – Public registration opened today for the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s 10th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature. The Policy Orientation will take place on January 12-13, 2012 at the Hilton Austin Hotel. Since 2003, the Policy Orientation has been one of Texas’ top policy conferences each year, bringing together lawmakers, policy experts,...
Press Release November 17, 2011AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation announced today that it is partnering with Salem Radio Network (SRN), one of America’s largest syndicated radio networks, on “Free American Energy Now!,” an outreach campaign to increase public awareness of the ways in which federal environmental policy is impeding American economic recovery and energy independence. The announcement...
Press Release November 4, 2011AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation has authored a policy perspective, Property Rights in Texas: Heading in the Right Direction, discussing Texas’ strengths as a strong property rights state with relatively limited land-use controls. Most Texas cities and counties have far less restrictive land-use controls than are found on the West Coast and the...
Press Release October 19, 2011AUSTIN – A paper published last Friday by the Texas Public Policy Foundation addresses a recent claim by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) that 81 percent of new Texas jobs during the last four years had gone to newly arrived immigrants. The paper, “The Texas Model: Who Really Gets Texas Jobs,” was written by...
Press Release October 10, 2011AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation is pleased to announce Thomas K. Lindsay, Ph.D., as the new Director of the Center for Higher Education. Starting today, he will work full-time from the Foundation’s Austin office. Dr. Lindsay brings more than two decades of experience in higher-education leadership, instruction and reform to the Foundation. His...
Press Release October 5, 2011AUSTIN – Mario Loyola, Director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Tenth Amendment Studies, has authored The Case of Range Resources, discussing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s arbitrary attack on the Texas natural gas company Range Resources. In December 2009, Steven Lipsky noticed a problem with his water well at his new home...
Press Release September 14, 2011AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation marked the eighth anniversary of Proposition 12, the constitutional amendment that implemented medical liability reform, with a new policy brief showing that Texas has added nearly 25,000 new physicians during the last eight years. The brief, “The Texas Model: Improving Health Care Through Tort Reform,” was written by...
Press Release September 13, 2011“When someone finds himself trapped into a hole, the first step to getting out is to quit digging. On a day when the nation’s ghastly jobs picture has been captured in stark detail, President Obama’s withdrawal of the EPA’s draconian, costly, and unnecessary new ozone standard is a rare bit of good news. “By the...
Press Release September 2, 2011“Today’s action plan from Chancellor Cigarroa is an important and welcome recognition that Texas students and parents can no longer afford business as usual from our state’s higher education institutions. The measures put forward today should lead to a better academic experience for students, and improved performance of the University of Texas System. “We congratulate...
Press Release August 25, 2011AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s President and CEO Brooke Rollins defended Texas’ extraordinary economic progress, exceptional job growth, health care innovation, and groundbreaking education reforms on Morning in America with Bill Bennett yesterday on the Salem Radio Network. “Bill Bennett’s Morning in America opens a daily dialogue with men and women all across...
Press Release August 24, 2011"Today's ruling in Florida v. HHS is a resounding victory for champions of limited government under the Constitution. The constitutional restraints on federal power have been eroding for the better part of a century, largely because the Supreme Court abdicated its role as guardian of those restraints during the New Deal. It is very heartening...
Press Release August 12, 2011