Posted on 09/19/2013 1:58:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a running campaign going to attract companies and jobs to his state’s low-tax, pro-growth business environment, and he turned his attention to Maryland last week with radio and television ads suggesting to Maryland residents that, “when you grow tired of Maryland taxes squeezing every dime out of your business, think Texas, where we’ve created more jobs than all the other states combined.” Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley was neither pleased nor impressed by this display of Texas gumption, insisting that “the gentleman is all hat and no cattle” in defense of his own economic track record.
CNN got the two rumoredly potential presidential contenders together on Crossfire last night to duke out the respective economic merits of their states; Perry may have succumbed to a few of the verbal stumbles to which he is wont, but he and Gingrich together gave O’Malley a pretty thorough going-over to which I’m not convinced O’Malley adequately rejoined. There’s a fuller transcript at RCP:
GINGRICH: Let me ask — let me ask you this. As an objective fact, in the five years you’ve been governor, Texas has gained 440,000 people. According to the U.S. Census, Maryland has lost 20,000.
Now, if we’re having all this upward trajectory, why is Texas doing 22 times better in population migration over the last five years than Maryland?
O’MALLEY: Actually, you need to check your facts. We’ve actually added 230,000 people. And we’ve actually grown by 4 percent. But that fact is dubiously put out by some blogs…
GINGRICH: This is the U.S. Census.
CUTTER: And I think the other issue is that the number of people coming to Texas, those are lot of low-wage workers looking for jobs, and that’s where they’re finding them, in Texas.
PERRY: Again, you’re absolutely incorrect on that. Look, how do you — how do you justify, how do you stand there and say that you’ve got all these low-wage workers that are coming to Texas when Facebook, eBay, all of the technology companies, Apple — you’ve got, again, Caterpillar, Toyota — major manufacturers that are coming into the state of Texas?
Martin’s state lost 4,700 jobs in July. That’s the fact. You lost 4,700 jobs in July. Texas created 18,200. So this idea that, I mean, there’s some real…
I didn’t know the US Census was a blog???
Growth in the US gov’t grows MD.
Thanks. I wanted to see that.
“I live in Maryland. Love these ads! Wish I could move to Texas, but I doubt they would have much use for a 53 year old bricklayer. Lol.”
Well, the housing market has come back here in Texas. Construction, both residential and commercial is booming everywhere one looks. The big problem here is building roads fast enough to accommodate the growth. So, come on down. :)
Isn’t Maryland the state that is TAXING people for how much RAIN falls on their property?
The storm water tax or regulation is the newest form of control, intended to replace global warming in regulatory war with the left. Storm water can be controlled and taxed on a much more local level, usually by appointed boards which don’t answer directly to voters.
Remember Nancy Pelosi is from Baltimore, he father was one of the most corrupt mayors in history...
check it out, they need skilled craft...
Mr. Vortex;
We would welcome you to Texas. Construction is strong in many parts of the state. We could very much use your talents.
He was followed in that office by her brother, who kept up the family’s values, so to speak.
Texas gained this one resident in June, and I’m enjoying it. Interesting fact- Texas actually has more State government employees than California. How? Because Texas is such a low-tax, low-regulation State, actual Tax revenues pour into the treasury and they have much more to spend.
You'd be surprised. I'm a 51 year old Civil Engineer who hasn't been out of the State of Mississippi since the mid-1980's, and I'm doing VERY well. There's plenty of homes and businesses being built right now.
Yes.
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
*for Perry
Now if Mullen could only come up with an offense.
No, no, no..y’all don’;t want to come to Texas...it’s hot, humid, horrible traffic...jet propelled skeeters...ok? :)
As a Texas migrant since the early 2000s, I think anyone on FR would be asset to our great state.
Can’t type today:
As a Texas migrant since the early 2000s, I think anyone on FR would be an asset to our great state.
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