Posted on 04/28/2013 7:09:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Like an aging rocker, Texas Governor Rick Perry is currently on the 2013 I’m Coming For Your Jobs tour across America. His first stop: California a couple months ago. This week he’s in Illinois, where he got a nasty reception from public officials. The trips are part of an effort to get businesses from highly taxed and heavily regulated states to relocate down South — but his efforts may fall flat, if recent history is any indication.
Texas has arguably become one of the few true economic success stories since the recession. The state has an unemployment rate of around 6% and a $9 billion budget surplus, even as many states struggle with 8% and 9% unemployment and severe budget deficits.
The state is run by pro-business Republicans in the state legislature, along with Gov. Perry, who supports low regulation and low taxes. Texas doesn’t have an individual income tax, either. Its minimum wage is lower than other left-leaning states, which keeps labor costs down. Prices for land and housing are low. And the oil and natural gas boom in recent years has kept jobs from leaving the state. The tradeoff for all this, of course: Texas’s relatively flimsy social safety net.
But Perry still isn’t satisfied with business in Texas. The governor sees even more potential if he can just lure corporations away from states that aren’t as friendly to business. The two states he’s visited so far, California and Illinois, rank 50th and 48th, respectively, in a survey of best states for business, according to a recent poll in the Wall Street Journal.
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As a yankee by birth and a Texan by choice. Take Texas numbers out of the national numbers and GDP would be negative and that includes the 1.6 trillion in Obama deficit spending.
Drag, you haven’t a clue what you speak of. Texas elected the farthest right tea party Senator state wide and we love him so too do most freepers.
I live in North Montgomery and the growth here is phenominal. I have repeatedly told family back home you may read about recession but here it is no where to be found.
He seems to be doing a good job with disaffected gun manufacturers, like Bold Ideas has said it will and Magpul is reportedly considering.
Good grief! That’s a typo-—thanks for pointing it out...........duh!
a load of doo.
Population shift does not account (alone) for liberalization.
The libs target urban area for control. That will happen without an influx of business and workers.
a load of “working” people and business won't hurt the state. It can make it more powerful than US GDP and allow Texas to succeed or dominate the rest.
Besides If Texas leads the way maybe a alliance of like minded states can form a union, or bulwark against encroaching socialist take over.
opportunity, my friend.
Getting rid of riffraff is the citizens job.
-——Just watching him piss off liberal media and socialist state governments is entertainment——
Another description besides entertainment would be campaign evidence. Success is the key to success.
Don't worry about it. The wild-eyed liberals wouldn't be caught dead moving to Texas. They would rather sit on their butts, collect public assistance, and complain about those corporate a**hats that laid them off, and post diatribes about Texas every time there is any misfortune (read the comments on any article about the explosion in West, or Hurricane Ike for examples).
The people that follow a company to Texas are the ones we want here. And, despite the unemployment rate, there are plenty of people here that would happily take the place of the ones that refused to move.
I don't see him denying it, but if you were actually from here you would realize that the urban centers are becoming more liberal because the conservatives are moving out: mostly to the suburbs just outside the city.
I'm in a county just outside Dallas. I don't think there is a single elected Democrat in the entire county. It was unusual to see an Obama sticker here last year, and I think that was someone commuting in from Dallas to one of several corporate headquarters -- think PepsiCo, FritoLay, DrPepper, EDS (although they were acquired by HP, there is still a big presence here), JC Penney.
As I posted earlier, I'm not worried about an influx of liberals into Texas. The worst of them wouldn't be caught dead here. They would rather go onto public assistance and spend the day posting diatribes about Texas every time there is a natural disaster or accident.
The ones that move to Texas are already conservatives, or are apolitical and are easily convinced.
I like your optimism, and certainly hope you are correct.
My impression comes from meeting several transplants to my town from CA. They are all wild eyed liberals.
I've met some, too. But, for every one, I've met 2 or 3 more that are conservative.
Frankly, I think the descent of the urban centers of Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, etc. into the pit of despair is the best object example.
I don't think it is coincidence that the most conservative parts of Texas are just outside these cities.
No one on this thread claimed that. Please read prior to commenting.
You think this is something new?
A new trend?
CA and other states went through this years ago...Some of you folks seem really behind the times.
How's that work?
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Sounds like a claim to me for liberalization. (your words)
I think you have the colors reversed. But it is worrisome that Harris country when Rat in 2012.
Harris county went Obama in 08 also by a larger margin.
See the tagline below.
You defined it el perfecto.
BTW, feel free to take a shot at this question below yourself.
This does not require a wordy, evasive response. It’s a straight forward question:
You deny TX major population centers like Austin, Dallas and Houston are becoming increasingly liberal and more controlling with many becoming more govenrment dependent in these population centers?
California went through conservatives moving to the suburbs and that somehow made only 37% of the total California population vote republican in 2012, while more than 57% of Texans voted republican?
In Harris county in 2012, Obama won 49.4% to Romney’s 49.3%, 1% for Johnson.
In 2008, Harris County went 50% for Obama and 49% for McCain.
Houston is the 4th largest city in America.
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