Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas Americans for Prosperity State Director Peggy Venable gave the following remarks today at the bill signing ceremony in Amarillo to honor Gov. Rick Perrys signing of the 2012-2013 Texas Budget:
Texas legislators balanced our state budget without raising taxes all while protecting the rainy day fund and they did it in all in Dear Gil170 days. Congress and the federal government could learn from The Lone Star State. It is not by accident that Texas is a beacon of fiscal responsibility and the top state for job creation. It is thanks to strong conservative leadership and policies that create an environment for prosperity and job growth.
Lets face it when it comes to leadership governors cant vote present as U.S. Senators can. In the states the buck stops on the governors desk.
I am honored to have been invited to participate in this historic bill signing.
Texas taxpayers are the winners this session. The legislature did the heavy lifting to craft a state budget which both funds essential services spends no more than is available and does so without raising taxes.
Gov. Perry called for a Texas budget which did not raise taxes and did not raid the rainy day funds. Thank you Gov. Perry for setting those parameters.
Texans have tightened their family budgets and expect our state government to do the same.
While advocates of bigger government and more spending proposed that the state continue over-spending on education AFP focused not on more dollars for education but to work to get more education for our dollars.
In the last 10 years in Texas public education spending increased five times faster than student population. That overspending has created bloated administrative and out-of-classroom costs. The average Texas school district has one non-teacher for each teacher on staff and schools spend only 48 cents out of each education dollar on instruction. These figures come directly from the school districts reports filed with the Texas Education Agency and are on the website www.RedAppleProject.com.
Legislators worked to reign in the overspending while still making education a priority. Fully 57 percent of the budget is allocated to education and K-12 spending increased by $3 billion in this budget.
The more than 100000 members of Americans for Prosperity in Texas are also pleased with the action the Texas legislature took calling on Congress to propose and submit to the states a Constitutional Amendment providing for a federal balanced budget amendment. Such an amendment is long overdue.
America is $14.3 trillion in debt. The federal Stimulus wasted nearly a trillion dollars and did not fix the economy. And consider this: A child born today already owes more than $46000 as result of Washingtons overspending.
It is clear we can no longer trust Congress and politicians to solve our spending crisis. We must unleash individual citizens and state legislatures to work toward ratifying this solution.
Texas has taken that bold first step by passing a resolution calling on Congress to pass and present to the states a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. We at Americans for Prosperity are calling on other states to follow suit.
Frankly Congress and the federal government could benefit from studying the Texas model: Texas is the top state for job creation and the No. 1 state for business relocation. We are the top state for tort reform and we export more goods than any other state.
This success did not happen by accident. The Texas success story is result of strong conservative leadership and citizens actively engaged in the process. Good policies create an environment for prosperity and job growth.
While Texas is the beacon of fiscal responsibility in the country we did not get there with our leaders voting present but with leadership willing to make tough decisions.
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas Americans for Prosperity State Director Peggy Venable gave the following remarks today at the bill signing ceremony in Amarillo to honor Gov. Rick Perrys signing of the 2012-2013 Texas Budget:
Texas legislators balanced our state budget without raising taxes all while protecting the rainy day fund and they did it in all in Dear Gil170 days. Congress and the federal government could learn from The Lone Star State. It is not by accident that Texas is a beacon of fiscal responsibility and the top state for job creation. It is thanks to strong conservative leadership and policies that create an environment for prosperity and job growth.
Lets face it when it comes to leadership governors cant vote present as U.S. Senators can. In the states the buck stops on the governors desk.
I am honored to have been invited to participate in this historic bill signing.
Texas taxpayers are the winners this session. The legislature did the heavy lifting to craft a state budget which both funds essential services spends no more than is available and does so without raising taxes.
Gov. Perry called for a Texas budget which did not raise taxes and did not raid the rainy day funds. Thank you Gov. Perry for setting those parameters.
Texans have tightened their family budgets and expect our state government to do the same.
While advocates of bigger government and more spending proposed that the state continue over-spending on education AFP focused not on more dollars for education but to work to get more education for our dollars.
In the last 10 years in Texas public education spending increased five times faster than student population. That overspending has created bloated administrative and out-of-classroom costs. The average Texas school district has one non-teacher for each teacher on staff and schools spend only 48 cents out of each education dollar on instruction. These figures come directly from the school districts reports filed with the Texas Education Agency and are on the website www.RedAppleProject.com.
Legislators worked to reign in the overspending while still making education a priority. Fully 57 percent of the budget is allocated to education and K-12 spending increased by $3 billion in this budget.
The more than 100000 members of Americans for Prosperity in Texas are also pleased with the action the Texas legislature took calling on Congress to propose and submit to the states a Constitutional Amendment providing for a federal balanced budget amendment. Such an amendment is long overdue.
America is $14.3 trillion in debt. The federal Stimulus wasted nearly a trillion dollars and did not fix the economy. And consider this: A child born today already owes more than $46000 as result of Washingtons overspending.
It is clear we can no longer trust Congress and politicians to solve our spending crisis. We must unleash individual citizens and state legislatures to work toward ratifying this solution.
Texas has taken that bold first step by passing a resolution calling on Congress to pass and present to the states a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. We at Americans for Prosperity are calling on other states to follow suit.
Frankly Congress and the federal government could benefit from studying the Texas model: Texas is the top state for job creation and the No. 1 state for business relocation. We are the top state for tort reform and we export more goods than any other state.
This success did not happen by accident. The Texas success story is result of strong conservative leadership and citizens actively engaged in the process. Good policies create an environment for prosperity and job growth.
While Texas is the beacon of fiscal responsibility in the country we did not get there with our leaders voting present but with leadership willing to make tough decisions.
