Issue Position: Budget and the Economy

Issue Position

Texas should never resemble California or Detroit when it comes to our budget. As your State Senator, Lois won't accept a budget that relies on accounting gimmicks and political tricks to appear balanced. She will fight for "truth in budgeting" to give us the transparency we deserve and demand. Working with her fellow conservatives, she'll put an end to budget diversions and keep a lid on spending by starting each session with a "zero-based budget" that accounts for every single taxpayer dollar. As an experienced budget writer, she's helped secure over $100 million extra dollars for border security to help our state law enforcement push back hard against Washington's open-border disaster. Serving six years on the House Appropriations Committee, she's always fought to lower our state spending and return any surplus dollars to the taxpayers who a paid them. To help see how our tax dollars are spent, Lois helped write a bill (HB 3430 80R) to open the books on state spending, making sure state expenditures are posted online for the public. She's backed efforts to make sure school districts post their checkbooks online for the parents and taxpayers. To help Texas businesses, she wrote a tax cut (HB 2505 81R) to raise the small business franchise tax exemption to $1 million.

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