Courageous Conservatives: 81R


Tim Kleinschmidt

HB 2291

Rep. Kleinschmidt co-authored and helped to pass HB 2291, which increases public awareness of changes in property tax rates.  This important tax transparency bill will help home and business owners to keep their property taxes in check.

 

Tryon Lewis

House Bill 2240

Prolonged domestic violence can have serious consequences for victims. Current law treats each instance of domestic violence as a separate case. Rep. Lewis authored and helped to pass HB 2240 which creates stronger penalties for multiple cases within a one year period, strengthening protection for the victims of domestic violence.

 

Allen Fletcher

House Bill 51

Rep. Fletcher co-authored and helped to pass HB 51, a Pledge with Texans bill, which creates an incentive program to bring more Texas universities to nationally-prominent research status.  Texas has only three "Tier One" universities, compared to nine in California and seven in New York.  This bill will improve higher education in Texas.

 

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  • NYT: Coffers Empty, California Pays With I.O.U.’s
    "An ever-widening budget gap joined with intractable political paralysis to deliver California its biggest fiscal blow in decades on Thursday, when the state's controller began printing i.o.u.'s in lieu of cash to pay taxpayers, vendors and local governments."
  • Philadelphia Inquirer: The Elephant in the Room: Obama's plan? Or yours?
    "There is an indisputable problem with our health-care system: cost. However, Obama's original health-care proposal focused not on cost, but on expanding coverage through government. Obama's plan to lower costs is for government experts to ration health care based on cost-benefit analyses, as some European governments do. That does not get to the root of the problem here, in Canada, and in Europe, which is a broken insurance model."
  • WSJ: The Last Best Hope of Earth
    'I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence." This statement from Abraham Lincoln in Philadelphia in 1861 was no staff-manufactured line. It was an expression from a man filled with deep emotion at finding himself standing in the hall where a courageous band of rebels pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to a high and dangerous purpose -- American independence. We celebrate them on July Fourth.
  • WSJ: California Lays Plans to Issue IOUs to Creditors
    California's top accountant said the state would begin issuing IOUs to hundreds of thousands of creditors after lawmakers failed to meet its deadline this week to close a massive budget deficit. California Controller John Chiang said Wednesday he planned to send out $3.4 billion of IOUs in July to state contractors and local governments, as well as to residents expecting income-tax refunds, welfare grants and college scholarships.
  • WSJ: California Republicans Reject Democrats' Budget Plan
    "Republican legislators rejected a Democratic plan to cut $11 billion in state spending, saying it didn't go far enough. California faces a $24 billion shortfall in a $92 billion general-fund budget through June 2010."
  • WSJ: The Albany-Trenton-Sacramento Disease
    "President Obama has bet the economy on his program to grow the government and finance it with a more progressive tax system. It's hard to miss the irony that he's pitching this change in Washington even as the same governance model is imploding in three of the largest American states where it has been dominant for years -- California, New Jersey and New York."
  • National Review: Eminent Domain in Reverse
    In Washington D.C. a local church wants to make renovations to its building, however preservationists of the city want to deem the site historical which would prevent the renovations.  This sort of historic-preservation abuse is perhaps best understood as the flipside of eminent-domain abuse. Through eminent domain, private developers force people off their land and out of their buildings. The worst historic preservationists do something similar, only they force people to keep their property as it is.
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