UPDATE October 27 to include Fort Worth IDS’s tax increase election. After months of hardship brought on by government responses to the Chinese coronavirus, are Texas voters willing to approve local officialsâ requests for higher taxes and debt this November?...
With few exceptions, the average homeownersâ 2019 property tax bills from school districts in Dallas County grew, even though Texas lawmakers passed reforms last year that allotted roughly half of the stateâs surplus tax revenue to reducing school property taxes....
Voters across Dallas County went to the polls Saturday to select city and school board officials and decide on property tax-backed debt propositions. The highest-profile local election, for Dallas mayor, resulted in a runoff between five-term Democrat State Rep. Eric...
Texans have few protections from fiscal abuse by local governments. In regards to school bonds, local politicians have very few legal limits that restrict both how the debt is financed and how the approved funds are actually spent. Current law protects big-spenders...
Many Texans are shocked to learn that our state currently has the second highest, per capita local debt in the nation. Â As a result, Texans are facing a local debt epidemic primarily driven by city and school debt, which are separately governed entities each with...
In advance of the 2014 local elections in May, Texans For Fiscal Responsibility today endorsed Lawrence Jones III in his bid for Garland ISD School Board, Place 5. Ross Kecseg, the TFR Metroplex office director, enthusiastically stated; “A graduate of Garland...
Texans with a desire to positively impact policy trends across the state may want to begin by cleaning their own backyard. As previously stated, local vigilance is not only needed to stop the disproportionate taxing, spending and debt trends statewide; itâs also an...
