Budget
Michael King, March 4, 2011
Even before the swinging cuts hit, non-profits accurately predicted disaster for the state budget
Richard Whittaker, May 29, 2010
After asking state agencies to cut 5% out of their 2010 general revenue budgets, Perry calls that the new baseline and demands another 10% cut for the next two years
Richard Whittaker, May 18, 2010
So much for the Texas economic miracle: Due to lack of funds, Perry forced state agencies to cut $1.2 billion out of their approved budgets
Richard Whittaker, May 11, 2007
Perry asks lawmakers for a new virtual border program (but not the money to pay for it)
Amy Smith, Dec. 22, 2006
Perry's 2005 tax reforms masked a hole in the state budget that split wide open years later, but the Center for Public Policy Priorities saw it coming
April 14, 2006
The Texas tax model: Cut property taxes, leave corporate loopholes, and hope you can fill the hole with cigarettes
Amy Smith, July 29, 2005
A bipartisan alliance shoots down Perry's plans to give rich homeowners a massive school tax break
Michael King, Oct. 15, 2004
Perry spends years cutting finances at Child Protective Services, then says he has no faith in their work
Michael King, April 16, 2004
As school property taxes sky-rocket, Perry plans to balance the budget with ... strippers?
Michael King, March 26, 2004
Dropping by the talk radio station of future Senator Dan Patrick, Perry lights the fuse on a tax time bomb that would cripple schools
Michael King, April 11, 2003
How a 2003 attack on Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program ignored their importance to the economy
Michael King, Jan. 31, 2003
Perry's innovative approach to balancing the budget: First cut 7% from spending, then zero everything out
Michael King, Jan. 24, 2003
The 2003 gubernatorial inauguration launches a new mantra: "Limited government, unlimited opportunity."
Michael King, Jan. 17, 2003
Perry tried to balance the 2003 state budget by pretending the state was not getting any bigger
Michael King, Dec. 27, 2002
A pivotal moment in Texas' economic history: Rather than raising taxes to meet needs, Perry proposed building a budget that cuts spending to cover loopholes
Mike Clark-Madison, July 12, 2002
Before the far right embraced him as an anti-tax zealot, the small government crew hated Perry for his $183 billion Trans-Texas Corridor highway proposal
Michael King, Feb. 1, 2002
Perry finds money to put into corporate road constriction, but targets children's health insurance for cuts
Michael King, Feb. 2, 2001
After Bush used Texas' swelling coffers to cut taxes and end programs, Perry uses the recession to ... cut taxes and end programs
Michael King, Jan. 26, 2001
In his first budget as governor, Perry asks for more prisons, but no extra cash for correctional officers