Texas Cracks Down on Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying for More Taxpayer Money

One of the biggest obstacles to government reform is bureaucracies’ using taxpayer dollars to lobby for higher taxes and spending, in a perpetual motion of big-government growth.

This has been a longtime problem in Texas, where counties, cities, and even universities send armies of lobbyists to the legislature and stymie good fiscal policy. Now, finally, we’re seeing some progress in curbing this problem.