Politics & Policy
May 13, 2015
Hostages
Open carry of licensed handguns and border security are the hostages in the tax-cut debates.
Tax cuts
Politics & Policy
May 8, 2015
Comptroller: Remember Responsibilities in Tax Cut Debates
Comptroller Glenn Hegar has sent the legislative leadership a letter reminding them that tax cuts might feel good but they also have obligations to face.
Politics & Policy
April 30, 2015
An Unstable Economy Is Not the Time for Tax Cuts.
With oil and gas production declining, state legislators are unwise to chase tax cuts.
Politics & Policy
April 28, 2015
High Noon on Tax Cuts
The Texas House today is taking up its sales tax cut package, setting up a showdown with the Senate and its property tax cuts.
Politics & Policy
April 9, 2015
House Tax Plan Gives Big Steel a Seat at the Table
The wealth the Texas House and Senate want to share is expensive but small when spread statewide.
Politics & Policy
April 30, 1999
Not So Rosy
Why Bush’s tax cuts are in trouble.President-anoint George W. Bush has adopted a Rose Garden strategy as the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination that justifies ducking GOP rivals and the media by saying he has to concentrate on doing his job as governor. But this game plan works only
Politics & Policy
February 1, 1999
No New Tax Cuts
The first obstacle in George W. Bush’s drive for president is a Republican woman—not potential GOP rival Elizabeth Dole, but a member of his own Texas team, state comptroller Carole Keeton Rylander. Some Bush insiders were peeved aplenty when Rylander slashed $700 million from prevailing estimates of how much money