AUSTIN – Internationally renowned economist and Texas Public Policy Foundation Senior Fellow Dr. Arthur Laffer issued a research report today, entitled “Texas’ Fiscal Future,” that endorses the Texas House’s passage of CSHB 1, the proposed 2012-13 state budget it will debate tomorrow, and disputes the claim that Texas would lose hundreds of thousands of jobs...
Press Release March 31, 2011Statement by The Honorable Talmadge Heflin, Director of TPPF’s Center for Fiscal Policy: “Claims that adopting a 2012-13 state budget that is within existing revenues would decimate Texas’ economy misinterpret a central point in the Legislative Budget Board’s analysis. The negative 272 thousand change in jobs predicted for 2012 does not imply the state will...
Press Release March 24, 2011“One year ago, Congress completed one of the most audacious power grabs in our country’s history when it gave final approval to ObamaCare. The Texas Public Policy Foundation was a vocal critic of the ObamaCare proposal, as our research showed it would increase health care costs and medical price inflation, slow our national economy, and...
Press Release March 21, 2011“We are disappointed to learn that Texas will likely resort to using its rainy day fund this early in the legislative session. Legislators in both the House and Senate should heed Speaker Straus’ commitment to continue looking for budget savings that will reduce any draw on the rainy day fund. “Having partially depleted the rainy...
Press Release March 15, 2011“The concerns about job security of the teachers attending today’s rally at the State Capitol are understandable. While no one should be completely immune from budget reductions in this tough fiscal cycle, teachers should certainly not be the first cuts – as too many school districts have proposed. “Over the last 20 years, state spending...
Press Release March 12, 2011AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation has joined forces with several influential Texas organizations to promote the Health Care Compact, an agreement between participating states that moves authority, responsibility, and control over funding for the health care system to member states. The compact seeks to engage citizens in the development of state-based health care...
Press Release March 8, 2011AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas House on Tuesday voted down important legislation to reform public schools after amendments watered down the bill. The president of the Texas Public Policy Foundation said it was important for lawmakers to keep working in the interest of children, parents and taxpayers. "Texans deserve real tax relief and education reform...
Press Release March 1, 2011AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation unveiled a proposal that would replace the federal Medicaid program with a state-driven TexHealth program, dramatically transforming the way medical care and services are provided to low-income individuals. “The federal Medicaid program is structurally designed to make states spend money in ineffective ways,” said TPPF Executive Director Arlene...
Press Release February 22, 2011AUSTIN – The U.S. Census data today are a tremendous vindication of Texas’s policy framework of free markets and limited government, according to the Texas Public Policy Foundation. According to the new census data, Texas’ population has surpassed 25 million, with growth of 20.6 percent during the last decade – more than twice the national...
Press Release February 17, 2011AUSTIN – As the Texas House Appropriations Committee hears from state university leaders today on its budget recommendations for Texas higher education, the Texas Public Policy Foundation encourages the dialogue to focus on how to achieve greater operating efficiencies in our state colleges and universities. “Before lawmakers roll back their initial budget reductions for Texas...
Press Release February 16, 2011“This report makes for some interesting trivia, but if Texas is such a horrible place, why have 4.5 million people moved here in the last decade? How is Texas adding four new congressional seats when California is not gaining congressional seats for the first time ever? Because what people care most about are jobs –...
Press Release February 15, 2011AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation praised Gov. Rick Perry’s “State of the State” address today, noting that several of the policy priorities he mentioned in his remarks mirror recommendations in the Foundation’s “Keeping Texas Competitive” program. “The challenges Texas faces today are considerable but we have shown before that we can emerge stronger...
Press Release February 8, 2011