claim: "texas families have kept more than $10 billion in their family budgets since we successfully fought to restore texas' sales tax deduction a decade ago."
author: kevin brady
evidence_1: dec 17, 2014 ... "texas families have kept more than $10 billion in their family budgets since we  successfully fought to restore texas' sales tax deduction a ...
evidence_2: "texas families have kept more than $10 billion in their family budgets since we  successfully fought to restore texas' sales tax deduction a decade ago.".
evidence_3: aug 23, 2017 ... a decade since the great recession hit, state spending on public ... the school  year ending in 2017) was nearly $9 billion below its 2008 level, ... in federal  student aid and the availability of tax credits have not kept up, ... eighteen states  cut funding per student by more than 20 percent, ..... (see figure 10.).
evidence_4: sep 17, 2018 ... the program ended in the spring of 1943 "since the conditions that brought the ...  they purchased $95 in food stamps for their 15-person household. .... in 1985  and 1987, such as elimination of sales tax on food stamp purchases, .... food  assistance programs by more than $10 billion over the next 10 years.
evidence_5: jul 10, 2017 ... with right-wing zealots taking over the legislature even as the state's ... july 10 &  17, 2017 issue ... fairly considered, the texas legislature is more functional than  the ... i've lived in texas for most of my life, and i've come to appreciate ..... he had  made to abolish the death penalty, block the sales tax, and ...