The Republican Party of Texas has released its official 2026 platform, which includes planks on tax cuts, spending restraint, and accountability. The platform calls for freezing state spending, cutting waste and fraud, and dedicating 90 percent or more of any state surplus to property-tax relief.

Tax Cuts and Spending Restraint

The platform demands the full elimination of the property-tax system for both businesses and individuals, with a transition that is a net tax cut achieved through fiscal discipline rather than a new income tax or other tax levy.

The platform also soundly rejects every form of predatory gambling, including state lotteries, regional casinos, and online sports betting. It demands the complete and immediate abolition of the scandal-plagued Texas Lottery and the redirection of remaining funds to general revenue or genuine education priorities.

Accountability and Transparency

A brand new issue added to the platform is a call for “municipal receivership,” which would allow the state to appoint a temporary receiver to restore essential services, enforce state law, eliminate waste, and return the municipality to sound operations under legislative oversight when cities demonstrate sustained high violent crime, repeated defiance of state preemption statutes, or dire fiscal mismanagement.

The platform also demands a clean, comprehensive ban on all forms of taxpayer-funded lobbying, with no loopholes, carve-outs, or alternative structures. This is a direct strike at the big-government apparatus that inflates local budgets and resists pro-taxpayer reforms.

Original reporting: Texans for Fiscal Responsibility — read the source article.