Some very quick and exceedingly brief impression of today’s TPPF conference call with Mario Loyola and Arlene Wohlgemuth:
The Texas legislature is considering a number of anti-gun-control bills, including one outlawing state officials from cooperating with federal authorities on unconstitutional mandates.
Texas is seeking to limit federal influence over anything not directly funded under a federal program.
There are over 600 (!) line item sources in the Texas budget as funds received from the federal government.
Despite conservative suspicion when it comes to Texas Speaker Joe Straus, reports that he’s considering caving on Obamacare may very well be overblown. Certainly the rest of the Republicans in the House are unified against ObamaCare.
I’m waiting to hear back from TPPF on state Senator Kevin Eltife’s sales tax hike proposal, supposedly to retire TxDOT bonds. At first glance it does sound an awful lot like a political death wish.
I said brief…
Tags: Budget, Guns, Joe Straus, Kevin Eltife, Republicans, Taxes, Texas, Texas Public Policy Foundation
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Thanks for the update! I can never make these calls, and I appreciate the information.