CPPP: More Needs, Less Ability To Fund

The Center for PUblic Policy Priorities is highlighting a new study that shows Texas has greater requirements for state and local spending than the majority of states but makes less of an effort to raise the necessary revenue.

CCCP has a briefing paper up on the report; the actual report was done by another group and is here. Here is a snippit from the conclusions of the CCCP briefing paper:

Texas needs to promote the growth of its tax base so that it will be able to better meet the needs of its residents. Over the long term, this will require investments in public services, particularly education, health and human services, and transportation.
But in the short term, Texas needs to make more effort to tap the resources it does have available. If the state were to make only the national average level of revenue effort, it could generate an additional $254 per capita—$5.5 billion per year, $11 billion over a state fiscal biennium.

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