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Paying for a Better Budget for Texas in 2010 and 2011

  

Author:
Dick Lavine /(512) 320-0222 x 101

July 30, 2008

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The key to adequate funding of essential state services in the 2010-11 state budget is an adequate amount of revenue. Recently we explained the process of writing the 2010-11 budget and how to get involved. This Policy Page highlights some of the potential threats to maintaining state tax revenue and outlines how you can participate to ensure that the state has the money necessary to fund a budget aligned with your values—a budget that invests in critical public programs and structures necessary to create opportunity and prosperity for all Texans.