Here is an excerpt from the Texas Scorecard
Texans Ready to End Taxpayer-funded Lobbying
Texas taxpayers are literally forced to fund their own political opposition in the state Legislature. Each legislative session, reports Erin Anderson, local governments spend millions of tax dollars on professional lobbyists to push policies in Austin that hurt citizens. Activists want the practice brought to a halt in 2023.
According to the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Texas local governments spent as much as $75 million in 2021 hiring lobbyists to promote government causes.
Texans for Fiscal Responsibility calls taxpayer-funded lobbying “innately corrupt and immoral” and “a major conflict of interest for taxpayers.”
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