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Rick Perry and the Largest Tax Hike In Texas
thenewamerican.com ^ | 8/23/11 | Kelly Holt

Posted on 08/24/2011 7:29:27 PM PDT by dragnet2

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To: dragnet2
The tax swap created a net tax decrease but...

ha ha ha. Give it up, people. First, any freeper quoting the Dallas Morning News is grasping at straws. Second, the statement above invalidates the entire premise. Third, following this policy change, the sea of businesses moving TO Texas increased dramatically, so it has to be pretty favorable to businesses.

21 posted on 08/24/2011 7:53:58 PM PDT by ilgipper
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To: Diogenesis

Forbes Magazine from March of this year says:

Texas, for instance, lacks a state income tax, an omission it touts far and wide in its economic development efforts. But the Lone Star State more than makes up for that with a hefty sales tax and the nation’s third-highest property tax (measured as a percent of fair market value). These taxes are not touted far and wide.

Result: Texas ranks only in the middle on tax burden.


22 posted on 08/24/2011 7:55:22 PM PDT by magritte
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To: Southack
This clown did the same number against Meg Whitman when she ran against Moonbeam .

Posted nothing but lies and half truths from Left Wing blogs , Soros 501c3’s etc... .

The clown would never respond when
confronted what would happen if Brown WON and the Dem controlled everything !

He just astroturfed away.

He is very scared of Perry winning.

23 posted on 08/24/2011 7:55:28 PM PDT by ncalburt (NO MORE WIMPS need to apply to fight the Soros Funded Puppet !)
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To: normy
Why do you PerryBOTs always go after Gov. Palin?

Because YOUR candidate is a weak RINO?

Because YOUR candidate Ordered Gardasil by Mandate?

Because YOUR candidate supported the DREAM act and open borders?

Get it together.


24 posted on 08/24/2011 7:56:00 PM PDT by Diogenesis (No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain)
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To: normy

Normy

I am a native Texan and I too own a business.

My taxes did not go up and business is great for us as well.


25 posted on 08/24/2011 7:56:09 PM PDT by TexMom7
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To: dragnet2

Quiet...we don’t talk about Perry’s HUGE tax increase. We might lose our lusting for him if we do.


26 posted on 08/24/2011 7:58:42 PM PDT by BobL (PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
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To: SoConPubbie

Perry cut 23 billion.


27 posted on 08/24/2011 7:59:24 PM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: Diogenesis
I go after Palin and why Perry is a better candidate than her. You Palin supporters are the ones jumping threads, mocking Perry supporters and trashing Perry as a person.
28 posted on 08/24/2011 8:01:30 PM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: TexMom7

Just another bias bs article from a lefty outfit...what a shame...our side has to use a bs article to fight there own side. Why am I not surprised....this is a left tactic and the right seems to be easily sucked into doing whatever the left desires. They’re are their backrooms laughing their A’s off.


29 posted on 08/24/2011 8:02:09 PM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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To: Diogenesis

Alaska is a big and wonderful state. I love it and have family there.

But you cannot compare 700,000 population to over 25 million living in Texas.

The Gardasil was not mandated - there was an online opt out.
Besides the fact that it never went into effect.

Perry is not for open borders.

Gov Palin supports Perry. She endorsed him when he was running for Governor.


30 posted on 08/24/2011 8:03:57 PM PDT by TexMom7
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To: normy
So, the misogyny of RINO Perry wins again for you?

Jealous, misogynist RINO Governors Attempt to Silence Gov. Palin
"GOP Governors Pull the Plug On Palin's Press Conference
The Republican Governors Conference Press Guidelines promised
that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin would “take approximately
20 minutes of questions” at today’s morning press conference.
Instead, this press conference, attended by 150 local and national media
and taped by 26 video cameras, disintegrated into a fiasco
when Texas Governor Rick Perry shut it down after
only five minutes and four questions.
"

"Eight other governors assembled on the stage, all men, seemed
visibly uncomfortable with the “Palin at center stage” format.

When Perry stepped in front of Palin at the podium to announce
it was over just as it was getting started, Palin looked irritated,
and the media shouted, “You’ve got to be kidding,”
“This is ridiculous,” "Come on,” and
“We were promised more questions.”

31 posted on 08/24/2011 8:04:15 PM PDT by Diogenesis (No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain)
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To: SoConPubbie
Your were posting more Perry Hating Soros propaganda from the Texas Tribune a phony Soros funded 501c3 non profit propaganda outlet founded by John Thorton a huge Austin Texas radical left wing millionaire !

You denied that FACT and mocked those facts.

Your another so Called phony “CONCERNED “ poster who posts left wing blogs and Soros 501c3 propaganda !

You also posted non stop trashing Meg Whitman when she was up against Radical Moonbeam Brown .

Now the Dem control everything in CA . Are you happy ? You are real scared that Perry will beat exactly WHO???
Who do you really support ?

32 posted on 08/24/2011 8:05:33 PM PDT by ncalburt (NO MORE WIMPS need to apply to fight the Soros Funded Puppet !)
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To: dragnet2

Apparently they were wrong, since the tax was passed in 2006, and still exists now — the courts must not have found it unconstitutional, and I assume they tried to get a court to agree with them.

I guess for the people who get their taxes raised, it’s a big tax increase, but otherwise it’s hard to agree that a net tax decrease counts as the biggest tax increase ever.

Note that by that standard, if we switched to a flat tax, added a rule that every citizen had to pay at least $100 of tax (just so they would all be participants), that would be the largest tax increase in the history of mankind (going from $0 to $100, an infinite tax increase).


33 posted on 08/24/2011 8:07:54 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: TexMom7

I’m sorry, but OPT OUT or MANDATE is PerryCARE.
Got that?

It should have been OPT IN.
RINOs just don’t understand, do they?


34 posted on 08/24/2011 8:08:22 PM PDT by Diogenesis (No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Mark Twain)
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To: dragnet2

No income tax, right?
No Corporate taxes?
No Capital gains taxes?

Ranked # 13 in business climate. That could be better.

45 out of 50 in State and local tax burden (1 is DC)

Kind of pathetic smear. I guess that is why businesses are fleeing Texas for California and NY?


35 posted on 08/24/2011 8:11:31 PM PDT by listenhillary (Look your representatives in the eye and ask if they intend to pay off the debt. They will look away)
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To: Diogenesis
Whoohoo! Keep these crazy over the top remarks coming! I don't think you and your pals see how crazy the accusations look.

Look, what you posted could be construed many different ways and reasonable people on the same team (Republicans) believe we all have similar desires. By you calling Perry a misogynist rino over this is so crazy I just have to ask you to keep em coming. You're doing a better job than me of solidifying my candidate as the one to vote for.

36 posted on 08/24/2011 8:11:41 PM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Do you have a reference for the total Alaska budget between 2005 and 2009? I found one reference, but it shows the budget increased every year, and you keep saying she lowered it so I figure I have the wrong reference.


37 posted on 08/24/2011 8:11:54 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: normy

Perry is so passionate about the border and illegal immigration.


38 posted on 08/24/2011 8:12:07 PM PDT by magna carta
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To: Diogenesis

Well, Perry understood and he backed off.


39 posted on 08/24/2011 8:12:19 PM PDT by TexMom7
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To: All
I posted this another thread. I'll share it here.

I will personally make every effort to raise the level of discourse on the Palin and Perry threads. We must hold ourselves and each other accountable to the standards we expect of FReepers. This is an important election season. The liberals want nothing more than to divide us. If we keep the discussions focused on the candidates, we can avoid division.

I haven't been here long enough to exerience a purge and I certainly don't want to experience one now. If things continue down hill between Perry and Palin supporters, it could lead to that. A purge of one group or the other will weaken FR. Let's not put Jim in that position. We need all the conservatives we can muster to defeat Obama and his minions. Let's encourage civility and discourage personal attacks. We shouldn't have to ask Jim and the mods to police these threads.


40 posted on 08/24/2011 8:12:24 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (Man is not free unless government is limited. ~Ronald Reagan)
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