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About the Foundation
The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-partisan research institute guided by the core principles of individual liberty, personal responsibility, private property rights, free markets and limited government.
The Foundation’s mission is to improve Texas
by generating academically sound research
and data on state issues, and by recommending the
findings to opinion leaders, policymakers, the media
and general public.
Learn more about the Foundation in our video, Ideas Into Action.
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Highlighted Research

| Entrepreneurs Versus Regulators: Government Intervention in the Market | | Thinking Economically: Lesson 8 |
| Whether you focus on theory or history, the lesson is clear: government intervention in the marketplace wastes resources, harms consumers, and often achieves the opposite from its intended goal. A deregulated, lightly taxed market is the best vehicle to achieve freedom and prosperity for all. |
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| Affordable & Reliable Energy: An Energy Policy for Texas | | 2009-2010 Legislators' Guide to the Issues |
| Proposed and enacted solutions for securing affordable and reliable energy for Texas consumers run from higher taxes and subsidies to mandated production from alternative fuel sources. However, long-term solutions must rely on a proper understanding of our current situation and market-based innovations. |
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| Texas Wind Energy | | Past, Present, and Future |
| Instead of subsidizing private wind development and imposing billions of dollars in new transmission costs upon retail electric customers, Texas policymakers should step back and allow the energy marketplace to bring wind power online when the market is ready. Texas consumers will reap the benefits.
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| The True Cost of Wind Energy | |
| A careful look at the costs of wind energy in Texas reveals that Texas consumers and taxpayers ought to think twice about the state’s current policy of subsidizing wind energy.
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Visit the Publications section for all of our reports.
| Latest Commentaries

Courage in the Face of Adversity As we move forward, Texas’ continued commitment to limited government, fiscal conservatism, and low taxation, both in times of excess and shortage, will only strengthen what is, arguably, the nation’s strongest economy. |
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A Change in Climate for Climate Change Policy In less than a year, many unanticipated developments have complicated the political dynamics of “ending the era of fossil fuels” through the enactment of carbon reduction mandates. Consider six such developments that may give pause to policymakers otherwise inclined to support these measures. |
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Future Shock Texas’ renewable energy mandates – combined with the federal government’s generous tax credit for wind-energy production – have propelled the Lone Star State to the forefront of the wind-energy movement. Billions of dollars in capital investment have muted most criticism of wind energy’s rapid expansion, but only because Texas consumers have yet to realize the long-term price we will pay for everyone else’s short-term gain. |
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Rewrite Texas Graffiti Laws If a graffiti “artist” spray-paints your house or business, you could be the one who draws the attention of law enforcement. |
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A Tale of Two States We didn’t know the half of it, perhaps, when Arthur Laffer cut loose a few weeks back concerning Texas’ superiority over California as a place to do business. |
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More commentaries are found in the Newsroom.
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Recent Press Releases
| Foundation: Don’t lock children out of charter schools | | State Board of Education expected to award final six charters this week |
Tens of thousands of Texas school children will be locked out of the school that can best meet their needs once the State Board of Education hits the Texas Legislature’s cap on charter schools later this week. |
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