From TEXAS SCORECARD Aug 25, 2016 by Cary Cheshire Dallas taxpayers dodged a $100 million bullet last week as the Dallas ISD board of trustees rejected a 13-cent tax increase. Though a majority of the trustees supported the measure, the 5-4 vote wasn’t enough thanks to a lawmaker from Houston. Few in the Texas Legislature…
From Armstrong Economics 101 Posted Aug 30, 2016 by Martin Armstrong The very core tenet of Marxism and its two versions called socialism and communism is to actually replace the family structure. In Russian communism, Stalin was paranoid about any possible resistance. Children were taught that the state was their parent instead of their biological…
Grits for Breakfast Every municipal budget cycle, police administrators approach local budget writers asking for more officers to combat crime. But hiring more cops is expensive and local officials seldom have a way to judge whether doing so will increase public safety for their constituents. Recently, researchers conducted “a systematic review of 62 studies and…
