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Rick Perry has made Texas one of the most industry-friendly states in the nation
Houston Chronicle ^ | Oct 17, 201 | AP

Posted on 10/19/2011 7:41:33 PM PDT by Clairity

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To: not2worry

The Texas tax and regulatory climate Governor Rick Perry inherited from Governor George W. Bush was already among the best in the nation
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Yes but he made it better and pushed for tort reform and loser pays.
http://news.yahoo.com/perry-slashed-environmental-enforcement-texas-080755432.html

http://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/dim-bulb/2011/09/rick-perry-s-loser-pays-reform

For GOP pols, tort reform is a stump speech perennial. Yet, like the weather, Republicans always talk about tort reform but never do anything about it.

But lawyers who annually siphon billions from the economy know that Perry is just crazy enough to actually push it through, because he already has.

Perry enacted medical malpractice reform in Texas, slashing payouts from bogus lawsuits. As a result, the doctors who left after being fleeced in the Lone Star state are flooding back by the thousands.

Then he signed a “loser pays” law letting prevailing parties recover their attorneys’ fees. “Loser pays” rips the guts out of the extortion model of litigation that has made trial lawyers so rich.
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And if it was just existing tax and regulatory climate that he inherited—there are states who are better on taxes than Texas and had been equal on regulatory laws.

Perry may be a bad debater amongst other things but Perry has worked to bring business to Texas and he has. Bush does NOT get that credit.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/41525892/Tax-Foundation-2011-State-Business-Tax-Climate-Index-Eighth-Edition


41 posted on 10/19/2011 9:26:46 PM PDT by Irenic
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To: jgge

This! Debates are words. We want and need someone who can get things done.


42 posted on 10/19/2011 9:50:04 PM PDT by Catsrus
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To: isthisnickcool

>>>The Chronicle is a liberal puke of a newspaper...

The Los Angeles Times of the Gulf Coast

If The Houston Chronicle is pushing Mr. Hair, then you know Perry is a liberal. Actually, he does fight the Feds on some items, but on the big issues he sides with RINOs and other leftist, rights-grabbing liberals.

How’s The Chronicle’s readership holding up? I thought everyone has already dropped the paper and moved out of town.


43 posted on 10/19/2011 10:10:18 PM PDT by Hop A Long Cassidy
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To: Irenic

Texas poverty level

Compare it to other States.

http://old.usccb.org/cchd/pov/map.htm

Are most Texans less well off then the general population?


44 posted on 10/19/2011 10:48:01 PM PDT by KDD (When the government boot is on your neck, it matters not whether it is the right boot or the left.)
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We have a high poverty level and that isn’t going to change until we secure the border and correct this illegal immigration problem that has been ignored for far too long.

We also need tort reform, loser pays and to choke off all those STUPID feel good regulations that kill jobs for the nation, not just Texas.

We have many poor hispanics in the south, they tend to have lower education and be younger with large families. I suppose this is why they thought in-state tuition would be good (though I disagree)

Texas is notoriously bad for not giving too many hand-outs—which makes the in-state tuition a head-scratcher.

We have job creation but we also have about 1000 people a day flooding into Texas, some from other states that are unemployed and as always—the illegals.

What we need are jobs nationwide. Perry took on the regulations here and he has taken on tort-reform and loser pays. Seeing that record helps me to trust he WILL do that as president.

Perry has defined his border plan based off of recommendations and studies of professionals, I trust that he will implement that plan.

Texas has paid 400 million Texas taxpayer dollars trying to do what the Federal Gov’t’s won’t do. I imagine if Texas had less illegals flowing in and those saved Texas tax dollars, our poverty level would sink immensely.

It is my opinion that Gingrich has the brains and Perry has the old cowboy drive to dog on congress and rein in this runaway gov’t. They have a record I can look to and see.

While Perry doesn’t suit you, he suits me just fine. I will continue to support him until or unless he is no longer a candidate.

Perry can’t fix the poverty level in Texas until this nation rights herself and starts enforcing her laws and upholding her duty to the states and her citizens.

I see Perry and Newt as the men to get the job done.


45 posted on 10/20/2011 12:03:58 AM PDT by Irenic
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To: Clairity

Thanks for the article.


46 posted on 10/20/2011 12:16:53 AM PDT by Katarina (Rick Perry the Best man for President ! NEVER Romney! And no thank you Cain.)
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No doubt, millions of cheap illegals working for minimum wage and lower after they pay the coyote. Slave labor,
47 posted on 10/20/2011 12:19:14 AM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: Clairity

The Houston Chronicle??

They NEVER have anything nice to say about Perry.

WOW!


48 posted on 10/20/2011 1:00:32 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: KDD

It’s the Mexicans.

I blame Perry for lots of things, but not this.


49 posted on 10/20/2011 8:30:55 AM PDT by Jedidah
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I tend to disagree my friend. The debates are a gauge of how sharp each candidate is and how quickly he/she can respond. I do disagree with the formats however. No debate should have more than two candidates, just have more of them. But, unfortunately, the debates are a tool of the media for the media and not for the electorate......


50 posted on 10/20/2011 7:46:29 PM PDT by eeriegeno (<p>)
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To: isthisnickcool
This in the Houston Chronicle? Wow! The Chronicle is a liberal puke of a newspaper...

The author of this thread has posted from every liberal rag she can find -- all in a failed attempt to revive interest in La Raza Rick Perry's train wreck of a campaign. This is a a partial list.

See-BS News
ABC News
NBC News
Boston Globe Mediaite
Time Magazine
Washington Compost
NY Magazine
MSNBC

And the Houston Chronicle

51 posted on 10/20/2011 8:12:22 PM PDT by South40 ('Heartless' since 1957)
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