The Dallas City Council recently voted 14-1 to increase taxes on taxpayers next year. Over the last decade, city tax collections increased by a whopping thirty eight percent, when measured on a per-resident basis. Despite the sharp increase, city politicians claim it...
“Ideally, what I’d like to see happen is nonpartisan, issue-driven involvement in city and county government. Policy outcomes should be the focus.”
Across North Texas’ fifty most populous cities, Southlake and Coppell collect the most property tax revenue per resident. As more sunlight is cast on the murky world of local government finance, it’s becoming clear that many politicians base their tax rates on...
Members of the Republican-dominated legislature have failed to adequately protect Texans from rising property taxes. But culpability ultimately falls on local officials who, despite clinging to “limited government” and “local control” rhetoric, have failed to pass...
Texas’ property tax system is in need of a serious overhaul. Not only does the Lone Star State have the nation's 14th most burdensome property tax system, but the system also creates perverse incentives for local officials to overtax, spend and borrow. Officials have...
Due to rapidly rising property values, Collin County residents are facing the threat of a higher county property tax bill unless officials significantly reduce tax rates. With enough reserve funds saved to support nearly a full year of county government operations...
Dallas-area state legislators recently penned a response to a Dallas Morning News editorial alleging it contained “misguided and inaccurate” information and made “erroneous” claims about the mayor of Irving. The DMN has a long history of reports that have criticized...
School debt would skyrocket in Highland Park from $18,700 per student to more than $93,000 per student if school officials have their way. Highland Park ISD board members are pushing a new $361 million debt proposal that, if approved by voters, would dramatically...
The Tarrant County Commissioner’s Court indicated they would not place the $809 million bond on November’s ballot.
John Peter Smith Hospital (JPS) and the Tarrant County Commissioner’s Court have overlooked yet another obvious problem with the faulty financial forecasts underlying their $809 million debt proposal—hundreds of millions of dollars in ambiguous “operational...