“ERCOT’s resource adequacy forecast shows that the Texas electricity marketplace continues to be the most competitive and successful in the nation, but it also points to some significant challenges we face. “The low projected reserve margins are not caused because of problems with the market. If the market isn’t sending the necessary price signals to...
Press Release December 1, 2011AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation released a new report today that debunks several popular misconceptions about the margin tax, Texas’ primary business tax. The report, “The Margin Tax Debunked,” is available for download on the Foundation’s website, www.TexasPolicy.com. “As we inch closer to the next legislative session, the calls to ‘fix’ the margin...
Press Release November 30, 2011Alexandria, Va. (Nov. 30, 2011) – The Health Care Compact Alliance today announced the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the nation’s largest nonpartisan individual membership association of state legislators, has adopted the Health Care Compact as model legislation. This move will make the Health Care Compact vision and language widely available to nearly 2,000 state...
Press Release November 30, 2011“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