Stop giveaway to large corporations at the expense of Texas taxpayers

When private companies use property owned by taxpayers, the Texas Constitution requires they pay a fair value for that use.  It is a principle that has protected the interests of Texas taxpayers for over a hundred years.

 However, when some of the world’s largest and most profitable telecommunications and cable television companies unleash an army of more than a hundred lobbyists on the Texas Legislature, the interests of taxpayers stand little chance of prevailing.

 Two bills are making their way through the legislature virtually unnoticed by the public and the news media that would grant a sweetheart deal worth tens of millions of dollars to those companies at the expense of taxpayers.