Galloway for Senate - State Spending

Republican
for Texas Senate District 4

Paid for by Galloway for Senate, PO Box 956, Tomball, TX

ontrol State Spending

Since

the year

2000

state spending has increased by 65%, or about 27

billion

dollars

annually, approximately 10 billion dollars more than the

rate of growth in

population and inflation.

The

standard

refrain

often

heard from legislators is that

their

"hands are

tied" because of federal mandates and

dedicated

funds that are part of

the

budget

process. Despite these claims, when revenues fell 10 billion

dollars below

projections

in 2003, they where able to balance the

budget

with less than 1% increase for the following year. This happened only

because the funds were not available spend. With the recovery of

the

Texas economy,

primarily

due to the rise in the price of oil, they have

since increased spending by an additional 18 billion dollars per year.

Even more telling is the grow

of state government.

s a percentage of

Gross State Product (GSP), state government spending has increased

in the last 10 years from 6.5% to 8.5% of GSP.

By holding

a hard

line on spending, at the rate of

inflation

and growth in

population, we will control the growth of government. By controlling the

growth of state government, revenues will continue to increase allowing

surplus funds to be available for the purpose of property tax reduction.