Issue Position: Fiscal Responsibility

Issue Position

I oppose any new taxes, period. In fact, the state's biggest taxpayer watchdog group, Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, has endorsed me as the true taxpayer champion.

Fiscal responsibility isn't simply balancing a budget. A better standard is to only grow the state budget at a rate of inflation factored by population growth. More importantly, I want to go to Austin to protect people from government. Fiscal responsibility is not only paying your bills but knowing what bills to incur. So we've got to make sure that we're funding essential elements of government and then decide what's not essential and reduce or eliminate those functions. When we have state surpluses - the state's rainy day fund - we need to start returning a portion of those surpluses that were taken from the taxpayers. This affords Texans the opportunity to spend, save, invest, and generate economic prosperity rather than government hoarding what is the rightful property of our citizens.

Endorsed by Texans for Fiscal Responsibility PAC

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