Search results: Zero Based Budgeting

Legislative Priority: Zero-Based Budgeting
By implementing zero-based budgeting, lawmakers could make government smaller and more efficient for taxpayers.

Grassroots Republicans Call for Zero-Based Budgeting
One of the most affirmed-planks in the platform, Texas Republicans want the Legislature to start from zero.
Zero-Based Budgeting is Best Way to Go
We’ve mentioned before that regardless of how much of a budget shortfall is estimated for the next biennium (anywhere from $16 billion to $27 billion), the way to approach it is not by asking what can we “cut from the top” of current spending, but what are the services that are “most essential and necessary.”

Starting From Zero
When legislators begin work on the state’s new budget, the product they produce will have an inherent flaw: the assumptions […]
TBC: Truth in Budgeting
Being truthful with where your tax dollars are coming from and where they’re going seems like common sense, but in […]

Texas Senate Leads on Fiscal Responsibility
Zero Based budgeting is a large step toward greater fiscal responsibility.

Texas Agencies Foretell Doom and Despair Over Budget Cuts
State agencies are predicting doomsday scenarios to avoid four percent budget cuts.
Issues

Sen. Charles Perry: Protect the Rainy Day Fund
Incoming State Senator Charles Perry (R-Lubbock) has filed a constitutional amendment to protect the Economic Stabilization Fund (ESF), sometimes referred to […]