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About the Foundation
The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-partisan research institute guided by the core principles of individual liberty, personal responsibility, private property rights, free markets and limited government.
The Foundation’s mission is to improve Texas
by generating academically sound research
and data on state issues, and by recommending the
findings to opinion leaders, policymakers, the media
and general public.
Learn more about the Foundation in our video, Ideas Into Action.
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Highlighted Research

| Letter to the Sunset Advisory Commission | | Regarding Texas Youth Commission (TYC) and Texas Juvenile Probation Commission (TJPC) |
| After working closely with state policymakers on landmark legislation to overhaul the Texas Youth Commission (TYC), the Texas Public Policy Foundation is pleased to share with the Sunset Advisory Commission key research and recommendations as it reviews both TYC and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission. |
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| Testimony Presented to the House Committee on Regulated Industries | | Regarding Telecommunications Taxes and Technology Deployment |
| Consumers have greatly benefitted from recent efforts to reduce telecommunications taxes. But the municipal franchise tax on video, voice, electricity, and natural gas services still takes hundreds of millions of dollars a year out of consumers' pockets.
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| State Employee Health Benefits | |
| With almost 560 state employees per 10,000 Texas residents, the increasing cost of health insurance benefits means state lawmakers must allocate considerable funding for these benefits. While health insurance benefits are an appropriate benefit for state employees, there are things lawmakers can do to help control these costs.
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| Thinking Outside the Cell | | Aligning Goals and Incentives in the Texas Criminal Justice System |
| This PowerPoint presentation was given to the Montgomery County Bar Association Luncheon and provides policy recommendations on how to align goals and incentives in Texas' system of criminal justice. |
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| Latest Commentaries

National Health Care Costs Government and Patients To this point, we have been successful in avoiding the pitfalls of nationalized health care. But putting more of our private health care consumers into government programs and granting the government more financial control over the health care market gets us closer to the Canadian model that even its architect says is in “crisis.” |
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Texas-Sized Transparency While Texas taxpayers are busy earning a living, taking care of their families, and paying their taxes, they deserve to know that their tax dollars are being used judiciously by the state and local governments that are spending them. |
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More Health Care Requires More Choices Giving consumers more choices would improve access to health care by providing individuals with more choices that would be affordable, regardless of insurance status. |
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The Importance of Business Friendliness A state (or a city or a county or a country) that wants to be loved, economically speaking, must make itself lovable, by implementation of business policies that business loves. |
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A Better Homeowners’ Insurance Market Awaits For most of the last 20 years, Texas regulators have battled homeowners’ insurers, attempting to block “excessive” rates. The losers in these battles have been consumers, who have been harmed by the instability injected into the market by over-regulation. |
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Denying Dropouts a Second Chance? Albert Einstein once said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. This sounds oddly familiar in the world of education policy. Throw more money at it and expect different results. |
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More commentaries are found in the Newsroom.
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Recent Press Releases
| Statement by Drew Thornley, Natural Resources Policy Analyst | | On the Public Utility Commission’s approval of new wind transmission lines |
While the development of renewable energy resources is generally a good thing, we can’t hide from its high costs. Building the transmission capacity to carry energy from West Texas and the Panhandle to East Texas will be tremendously expensive. |
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