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Dallas Morning News Calls Projected Shortfalls “Deficits”
The Dallas Morning News Editorial Board wrote an Op-Ed about projected budget shortfalls the Texas Legislatures will face next year, misnaming them deficits. Deficits happen when you have $100 and spend $150. When projected expenses are more than projected tax...
Build It and They Will Pay
State wide area transit authorities have been making headlines for their poor budgeting and planning. That means they are operating business as usual and taxpayers are going to be left holding the bill. Last week it was Houston’s Metro taking some deserved heat for...
TCEQ and public school budgets
The headline: School budgets hanging on TCEQ decision. The story from the Austin newspaper goes on to explain that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has a decision to make which “could strike a major blow to the budgets of many school districts that will...
Great improvements at the State Capitol
A few hours ahead of Van Taylor's official swearing-in, the State Preservation Board is on top of things: A great day in the Texas House of Representatives, to be sure.
Big House Improvement
With very little fanfare, Texans will today have a markedly more ethical, and a significantly more conservative, state House. Two new members of the legislature are being sworn in, filling vacancies and improving the body. One is a Democrat with a working ethical...
Fiscal-conservatives in the House?
Ever the advocates for all-out-government growth no matter what, Dick Lavine of the Center for Public Policy Priorities, was quoted in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as saying: "Either we're going to have to shut down some of these exemptions, or we're going to have to...
Voters Aren’t Buying
With the end of another bout of elections comes shortsighted, shallow analysis and whining by the print media. This week Enrique Rangel provided the former and the Dallas Morning News the latter. Given Rangel’s long history of being a Delwin Jones apologist his...
Lone Star Tea Party speech – Fernando Trevino
On April 15th, 2010, I delivered this speech to an estimated 18,000 people at the Lone Star Tea Party at QuikTrip Park in Grand Prairie, Texas. [Watch the video below.] Howdy! So this is what thousands of freedom-loving Texans looks like! You know I've never seen...
The “Centrist” Scam, The “Moderate” Myth
The Quorum Report reported yesterday the 20/20 PAC, consisting of 10 self-styled “moderate” Democrat members, hired Billy Hamilton for fiscal policy advice. This of average interest by itself but raises an interesting issue: the “centrist” scam, the “moderate” myth....