Hold on to your wallets – Texas legislators have come up with yet another way to “help” businesses with our tax dollars.
Corporate Welfare
Bob Hall Fighting to Curtail Corporate Welfare
This week, Hall filed a trio of bills that would eliminate some of the state’s most egregious subsidy programs.
GOP Delegates Oppose Taxpayer Handouts to Corporations
Over 94 percent of delegates at the Texas Republican Party’s Convention oppose local governments giving taxpayer handouts to private corporations. The language adopted in the GOP platform plank also calls for government at all levels to end taxpayer bailouts of any...
Senate Seeks to End Crony Handouts
The Lt. Gov. appears to be moving in the Senate in the direction of reducing and eliminating corporate welfare programs.
End The Wind Subsidy
Legislation going before the Texas Senate this week would end the state mandate forcing Texans to purchase expensive, inefficient wind and other so-called "renewable" energy sources. Because generating power from wind is notoriously fickle and expensive, government...
Curtain Drop on Cronyism
Though corporate welfare is popular with some politicians, it’s a practice that taxpayers have been opposing for quite some time. This legislative session, one lawmaker has taken the lead to end one of the most egregious examples. State Rep. Matt Shaheen (R-Plano) has...
Eternal Life
A belief that our state government wastes money on pet projects is a truism of modern Texas politics. Despite a displeased frustration with well-funded political favoritism, taxpayers may not know the major reason why elected officials continually defend it: organized...
Bonds for Crony Contractors, Not Kids
Not only did Keller ISD conduct a pre-bond campaign research poll specifically designed to manipulate November's voters in potential conflict with state law, but the crony contractors they will hire if the proposition passes are also funding the pro-bond PAC operating...
Surplus of hindsight
State Legislators banking on a healthy state budget surplus to ease funding tensions next session are in for an unexpected comeuppance. A major state employee benefit system for retired teachers is in danger of imminent insolvency. A surprising twist to this problem...
Hungry for Taxpayer Handouts
A popular political bumper sticker reads, “If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.” Citizens of the small, Central Texas town of Taylor now have a reason to do both: Taylor’s City Council has given away over $200,000 in tax money to build a pizza restaurant...