Spending Restraint
62. Government Spending and Taxation
We believe in the principles of constitutionally limited government based on federalist principles. Government spending is out of control at the federal, state, and local levels, and action is needed to reduce spending. We urge the Legislature to amend the Texas Constitution and State statute with a stricter spending limitation based on US Census population growth plus inflation and apply the new limit to Texas’ total government budget. We call on the Texas Legislature to freeze state spending. Any budget surplus shall be applied to a Texas Health Savings Account (HSA) until such time as we have exited Medicaid. Additionally, we support imposing a spending cap on all local government jurisdictions to be bound by the metric of population and inflation. (F, S, L)
