Brian Phillips, Author at Texas Institute for Property Rights

An Open Letter to the Opponents of the Bullet Train

Texas Central Partners has threatened many Texas landowners with seizure of their property through eminent domain to build a proposed

When an individual takes property without the owner’s consent, it is called theft. When a group of individuals does this,

The Texas Republican Party biennial convention was held in San Antonio in mid-June. In the end, the delegates approved a

The Echo Chamber I have recently been giving a lot of thought to the “echo chamber”–the tendency of people to

A recent report by the Texas Public Policy Foundation suggests that property taxes for education could be cut in half

The Trump Administration recently unveiled a proposal that will require utilities to buy power from plants scheduled to be retired.

This is an excerpt from Individual Rights and Government Wrongs. After passage of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Mismatched Curtains Sometimes, the inanity of government regulations knows no bounds. As an example, Mildred Bryant, a resident of Pagedale,