Action Update - Issue 85 :: January 4, 2007

Hang On...

Don't Let Your Wallet
Out of Sight!

The Texas Legislature convenes next week with YOUR money stockpiled.

Do you really want a smaller more efficient government?

Should Texans ask for rebates?.. or just let the extra $15 Billion ride?

Are you ready for a huge explosion in state government?.. 626 bills are filed already.

Make yourself be heard.  Send us your thoughts on what to do with the extra money.

Check out the bills filed in the House of Representatives.

Check out the bills filed in the Texas Senate.

Gambling, taxes, penalties, restrictions, advisory boards!  New fines, expansions, minimum wages, prisons, sex, obesity and tuition.  You will find more excitement in the state capitol than on Wisteria Lane!

• "With a state budget surplus of $15 billion, some legislators and bureaucrats have spent that surplus several times over," said Venable.  "We want to make sure that in good economic times, the state does not overspend.  We consider the budget surplus as tax dollars that should be returned to taxpayers." 

Peggy Venable, Americans for Prosperity

• "...the $15 billion surplus lawmakers will have in-hand this session should be used to provide an additional 25-cent tax rate reduction. With a stroke of the pen, Texas taxpayers can be given needed relief. "

Marc Levin, Texans for Fiscal Responsibility

• "Those who foot the tax bill have only those they elect to protect them. By comparison there is a veritable army of lobbyists doing all they can to badger elected representatives into giving up more of our money. All too often, those in office have proven weak and have succumbed to the urge to spend."

Byron Schlomach, Ph.D.,  Texas Public Policy Foundation

• "But legislators must resist the temptation to view the state's budget surplus (which could be more than $15 billion) as mad money. They must instead return what surplus there is to the taxpayers, preferably in the form of property tax relief."

Tyler Morning Telegraph

RECOMMENDED READING:

• Right Hopes
  Although the Republican party was soundly defeated in November, its principles were not.

• A Pair for History
  Presidents Ford and Reagan

• The Poverty of John Edwards
  Edwards forgets that entrepreneurs, not governments, create long-lasting jobs and growth.

INFORMATION:
Janelle Shepard, Executive Director
Texans for Texas, Inc., 815-A Brazos St #384, Austin, TX 78701-9996.
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