https://blog.thomas-bray.com/tags/texas/Recent content in Texas on Rabid CuriosityHugoen-usThomas BrayTue, 17 Mar 2026 11:15:00 -0500https://blog.thomas-bray.com/posts/public-finance-texas/Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:15:00 -0500https://blog.thomas-bray.com/posts/public-finance-texas/<h2 id="texass-fiscal-model">Texas&rsquo;s Fiscal Model</h2> <p>Texas is the most influential fiscal model in American state government—a large, fast-growing state that has maintained no personal income tax, attracted enormous business investment, and used its model as a competitive wedge against higher-tax states. Whether Texas&rsquo;s approach represents a sustainable model of governance or a set of deferred costs and distributional choices that will eventually come due is one of the defining debates in state fiscal policy.</p>