Posted on 02/10/2013 7:49:09 PM PST by SeekAndFind
What could be more fun than a throwdown between Governor Goodhair and Governor Moonbeam?
Rick Perry is on a four-day “business recruitment trip” to California, escalating his raids on Jerry Brown’s economy and getting enough attention to, maybe, get some businesses to think about moving. With new taxes that were imposed by California and Congress at the end of 2012, Californians — including decision-making executives — are among those who pay the highest taxes in the country.
Mr. Perry recently spent a pittance — $24,000 for a radio advertisement in a state like California has a smaller audience than a tweet from Paris Hilton — to tweak Mr. Brown’s nose on jobs.
In the ad, Mr. Perry talks about how easy it is to do business in Texas, suggesting the job-makers on the West Coast would have a better time if they would simply moved here.
That’s nothing more than air support for a news release. And it worked. Mr. Perry’s proposition quickly became a big story, eclipsing that teensy radio play. Mr. Brown took the bait, scolding reporters in his home state for pestering him about something so insignificant.
It is a lovely thing when two avatars of politics slug it out in public. The little radio advertisement has so far become a weeklong conversation about the relative virtues of the nation’s two biggest states.
In other words, Mr. Perry got just what he wanted. The first part of persuading someone to move is getting them to consider that idea.
Behind the ads and the commentary is a serious competition between the states for economic pre-eminence. In that corner, Athens. In this one, Sparta. Each serves as the other’s foil, the Ali to its Frazier, the Moriarty to its Holmes, the red to its blue.
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“Tennessee has raided Cali for years. Perry is jealous. Moonbeam is Moonbeam.”
For what? Moonshiners?
One very big catch was Art Laffer.
Art Laffer’s don’t grow on trees
“Art Laffer’s don’t grow on trees”
I know and respect Art Laffer! But I doubt that he qualifies as a business in the traditional sense. Oh sure, he may have a few folks working for him, but it isn’t as though Apple Computer, or one of the semiconductor manufacturers relocated to Tennessee and brought hundreds of employment opportunities. Thirty years ago, I worked for a firm that relocated it’s manufacturing from SF to Memphis. Nice place, good workers, but then along came FedEx and took all the property surrounding the Memphis Airport and our plant with it.
Start with Nissan HR
Perry back in CA begging for money again? I thought Texas was doing great?
Maybe you'll luck out and hell scare up enough money to buy you guys a week of decent weather.
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