Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Tuesday that he has sued Harris County over Uplift Harris, a guaranteed income program that would provide nearly 2,000 residents with $500 per month for 18 months.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Tuesday that he has sued Harris County over Uplift Harris, a program that would provide nearly 2,000 residents with $500 per month for 18 months."This scheme is plainly unconstitutional," Attorney General Paxton said in a statement. "Taxpayer money must be spent lawfully and used to advance the public interest, not merely redistributed with no accountability or reasonable expectation of a general benefit.
" Harris County’s program to give public money away with no conditions, no control over expenditure of that money, and no guarantee of public benefit is prohibited. The Constitution also provides that everyone has "equal rights, and no man, or set of men, is entitled to exclusive separate public emoluments." This lottery-based handout violates the Texas Constitution because the selection of recipients is inherently arbitrary.
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