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The Republican Party of Texas strongly supports and calls for immediate and aggressive action to curtail excessive state spending, including:

a) Freezing state spending, identifying and cutting all waste, fraud, abuse, inappropriate expenditures, and spending that falls outside the proper constitutional role of government, enacting stricter spending limitations on all revenues and expenditures by the state, and dedicating 90% or more of any state budget surplus to property tax relief (beginning with buying down school maintenance and operations taxes) until such taxes are phased out and eliminated; and 

b) Call upon all Republican legislators to prioritize and advance legislation achieving these reforms without loopholes, carve-outs, or dilutions, and decline influence from special interests benefiting from big government spending and their PACs.