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Gov. Abbott, legislative leaders deflate property tax relief
Heading into the General Election, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said he would support the "biggest property tax cut in the history of Texas." And in his one debate with his Democrat opponent, Abbott answered a question about property taxes … [Read More...]
Pratt: The self-defeating arguments against school choice
It is like those congregants who wrongly confuse a building as being the Church. What is? Confusing buildings, organizations, and traditions with being the essence of public education. In reality public education is simply a public … [Read More...]
State of public education is not optimal so why is reform so vehemently opposed? – Pratt on Texas 3/29/2023
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Why is there such opposition to reforming public education in Texas and America? Public schools are at the center of our cultural and political debates and yet … [Read More...]
Texas Dem reaction & policy to school shootings ignores causal factors | Border & business news – Pratt on Texas 3/28/2023
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Response in Texas to the Tennessee Christian school shooting demonstrates the intellectual bankruptcy of the Left, the contradictions of Leftists demands related … [Read More...]
Rick Perry for school choice but many House Republicans favor socialist model | Remember Goliad! – Pratt on Texas 3/27/2023
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Too many Republicans in the Texas House of Representatives seem to owe their allegiance to local school bureaucrats than to citizen voters and the overall good of … [Read More...]
Texas leads nation again in jobs | Don’t bring back crony tax break program – Pratt on Texas 3/24/2023
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Why should Republicans bring back a crony tax break program we let end last session? Many of them sure want to do so and I'll explain why it's a terrible idea. … [Read More...]
Rackler wants Lubbock Co. game room regulation passed | Legislature missing mark on ERCOT – Pratt on Texas 3/23/2023
The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Senate passes its form of tax relief with a unanimous vote; House Appropriations is moving its version of the state budget forward, and as usual the liberals are … [Read More...]
Older posts from Pratt on Texas...
- Why bringing back a crony tax break program in Texas?
- Gov. Abbott, legislative leaders deflate property tax relief
- Pratt: The self-defeating arguments against school choice
- Anti-Wimp: Man’s “gun control” better than two home invaders
- Corley on the odd, strident opposition to game room regulation by some officials | Anti-Wimp update – Pratt on Texas 3/22/2023
- WT A&M libs get dose of their own woke medicine | AG Paxton opinion on school choice is sound – Pratt on Texas 3/21/2023
- Anti-Wimp: Couple burglarizing parked cars stumble into flying lead
- Bill Peacock on how legislators are missing the right fix to Texas’ electric grid | Anti-Wimp update – Pratt on Texas 3/19/2023
- House budget rider defunds D.E.I. on campus & more legislative news | Border news – Pratt on Texas 3/17/2023
- Bryan’s mayor holds man’s airplane hostage? | Real issues of the Amarillo abortion pill case – Pratt on Texas 3/16/2023
- Legislative update & commentary | TEA to take over Houston ISD | That Chinese rocket over Texas – Pratt on Texas 3/15/2023
- The big Texas property tax relief fight | Who in Lubbock Co. has been protecting “game rooms?” – Pratt on Texas 3/14/2023
- Absurd political payoff for school choice in Senate bill | Key border related bills filed in Austin – Pratt on Texas 3/13/2023
- Legislative review on this bill filing deadline day | Gun tracking code on hold – Pratt on Texas 3/10/2023
- Finally noticed: Abbott is “still not at the… Capitol very much” | Much border & immigration news – Pratt on Texas 3/9/2023
AUDIO: Pratt on Texas & Podcast-Extras
- Episode 3179: Texas Dem reaction & policy to school shootings ignores causal factors | Border & business news – Pratt on Texas 3/28/2023 March 28, 2023
- Episode 3178: Rick Perry for school choice but many House Republicans favor socialist model | Remember Goliad! – Pratt on Texas 3/27/2023 March 27, 2023
- Episode 3177: Texas leads nation again in jobs | Don’t bring back crony tax break program – Pratt on Texas 3/24/2023 March 24, 2023
- Episode 3176: Rackler wants Lubbock Co. game room regulation passed | Legislature missing mark on ERCOT – Pratt on Texas 3/23/2023 March 23, 2023
- Episode 3175: Corley on the odd, strident opposition to game room regulation by some officials | Anti-Wimp update – Pratt on Texas 3/22/2023 March 22, 2023
- Episode 3174: WT A&M libs get dose of their own woke medicine | AG Paxton opinion on school choice is sound – Pratt on Texas 3/21/2023 March 21, 2023
- Episode 3173: Bill Peacock on how legislators are missing the right fix to Texas’ electric grid | Anti-Wimp update – Pratt on Texas 3/19/2023 March 20, 2023
- Episode 3172: House budget rider defunds D.E.I. on campus & more legislative news | Border news – Pratt on Texas 3/17/2023 March 17, 2023
- Episode 3171: Bryan’s mayor holds man’s airplane hostage? | Real issues of the Amarillo abortion pill case – Pratt on Texas 3/16/2023 March 16, 2023
- Episode 3170: Legislative update & commentary | TEA to take over Houston ISD | That Chinese rocket over Texas – Pratt on Texas 3/15/2023 March 15, 2023
- Episode 3169: The big Texas property tax relief fight | Who in Lubbock Co. has been protecting “game rooms?” – Pratt on Texas 3/14/2023 March 14, 2023
- Episode 3168: Absurd political payoff for school choice in Senate bill | Key border related bills filed in Austin – Pratt on Texas 3/13/2023 March 13, 2023
- Episode 3167: Legislative review on this bill filing deadline day | Gun tracking code on hold – Pratt on Texas 3/10/2023 March 11, 2023
- Episode 3166: Finally noticed: Abbott is “still not at the… Capitol very much” | Much border & immigration news – Pratt on Texas 3/9/2023 March 10, 2023
- Episode 3165: Texas Tech’s Leftist D.E.I. program with John Sailer of the National Institute of Scholars – Pratt on Texas 3/6/2023 (repeat) March 8, 2023
On Virtue & the Republic
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. — Edwin Meese III
On Political Pessimism
Defeatist cynicism is an arrogance that we too know an outcome – we do not. Our Creator expects us to fight for good until He ends the game, not us. — Robert W. Pratt
On Liberty
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. — Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart
On Right
The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone out of style. — Nicolás Gómez Dávila
On Political Correctness
Political correctness never rears its ugly head independently. It always shows up as a series of actions designed, to this observer, to crush the souls of those blessed with common sense. — Milo Yiannopoulos
On pessimism and difficulty
When you encounter difficulties, you need to be optimistic. The pessimists tend to die. — Zhou Youguang
On American Liberals
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
On Universities
Universities have become a place to provide economic and political protection for those who hold economically and politically unworkable ideas. — Robert W. Pratt
On Rush Limbaugh
William F. Buckley is the esteemed father of the American conservative movement and gave it meaning; Ronald Reagan took conservatism to the public, showed it worked, and made it popular; Rush Limbaugh is the man who embedded political conservatism into our culture. — Robert W. Pratt
On Mistakes in Politics
Politics, as opposed to science, does not reward the correction of mistakes, given that correcting a mistake also entails admitting to having made one. Worse, the bigger the mistake, the greater the political urgency of defending it at all costs. — Lionel Shriver
On Rights and Freedoms
When we think of our rights and freedoms as rewards for good behavior, we lose. — Meghan Murphy
On Republican Moderates
Republican “moderates” rarely fight hard for anything, except for other Republicans giving up their principles. — Robert W. Pratt
On Judging Public Policy
Judge public policies by their results, not their intentions. – Milton Friedman
Why bringing back a crony tax break program in Texas?
Calling business welfare, or crony capitalism, an economic development tool does not change what is happening in such transactions nor does it make it better policy. In the 87th Session of the Texas Legislature, in 2021, a wonderful … [Read More...]