At Budget Meetings, Policy Decisions Few Voters Notice
Next month, the Legislative Budget Board will meet to choose a growth rate, the kind of fascinating government business that made it so tempting for some of us to ditch civics class in high school. The rate will be a limit on how much the state budget will be allowed to grow during the next two years.
Some of this is pure process, but stick around — process can bleed into policy, and affecting one can decide the other.
When lawmakers meet in January, they’ll decide pretty quickly just how big the current budget will be. You’d think that ...
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gypsy314 ne
No more public pensions that tax payers can not afford now or later. Throw unions out and pensions would be a great start for Texas and its budget. Also no more support for illegal aliens and it children this is like saying come one come all break Americas laws attack America with in like Obama and democrats are doing now. So all Americans should be voting to remove all democrats and Obama so American can come back from bankrupt path Democrats and Obama is going down.
So get out there and vote.