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Getting It (Almost) Right
In a rare display of good sense, the Dallas Morning News almost gets it right in an editorial on the Legislature's new business income tax. But in arguing against the creation of new loopholes and exmeptions, they write "this new tax needs time to work." In reality,...
Academically-Required Press Box
Abilene school district officials tell the local newspaper that their "New Year's Resolution" is to increase taxpayers' debt this May by $85.2 million, or $5,126 per student. This would include spending $2 million on a new press box for the local football stadium....
New Business Tax Body Blow: 300 Percent Increase
The Houston Chronicle reports on the severe impact of the new business tax, which is a $6.2 billion hike  over the franchise tax. Wanda Rohm, who owns Presto Printing in Houston with 12 employees, said her taxes will go up an astonishing 300 percent. We have...
Sandbagging The Taxpayers
You always get more of what you subsidize, especially risky behavior. That's certainly the case along Texas' hurricane-prone coastline. Our friends over at the Texas Public Policy Foundation recently published a sobering report looking at the multi-billion-dollar...
Lacking Decency
While Texas Transportation Commissioner Ric Williamson's strong views on any number of issues earned him equal measures of love and scorn, he was an honorable man who truly sought to serve the best interests of Texans. He died earlier this week of a heart attack. As...
Giving Environmentalists The Bird
Pop quiz: Do you save the planet from global warming by switching to renewable energy sources, or do you protect a species from tragic death knowing you'll make the planet uninhabitable in somewhere between 5 to 5 million years? After years of making the rest of us...
It Didn’t Work Before, So Let’s Spend Even More
Teaching all kids in both English and Spanish failed when tried before, so of course, the Austin Independent School District is going to waste even more money -- and kids academic lives -- by doing it again. That's what inept bureaucracies do: spend money on fads,...
Star-Telegram Forecasts School Finance Crisis, Says Schools Lack Funds
The Star-Telegram's editorial suggests state law needs to be changed to allow school districts to tax more without a vote, even while noting that 77 percent of district rate increase requests and 75 percent of bond proposals were approved by voters in 2007. So it...
Useless Acts
Two weeks ago the Office of the Attorney General of Texas weighed in on the recent controversy regarding the speakership of the Texas House. For 99.99 percent of Texans, that issue is about as exciting as watching the grass turn brown. But in the course of the ruling,...