Texas Grows Spending Almost 100% during Perry's Tenure

[BereanBrain]

During Perry's Tenure in Texas, Spending in Texas grew from about 49 Billion a year, to over 90 Billion a year. Texas budgets every 2 years, to the following show the budgets for both Bi-annums. Divide by two for average yearly spending.

Texas 2010-2011 Budget 182 Billion

http://sunshinereview.org/index.php/Texas_state_budget

Texas 2000-2001 Budget was ~98 Billion and is available at

http://www.lbb.state.tx.us/Bill_76/Bill-76-4_Conference_Summary_0599.pdf

In other words CLOSE to 100% Growth in spending. (from 49 B to 91 B)

During this time, the Census says Texas grew from 20 Million (2000 Census) to 25 Million (2010 Census). That’s a growth of 25 Percent.

So much for Perry's Fiscal Conservative Credentials.

[dsc]

“If I factor in inflation over 10 years”

That’s what I was wondering—are these figures adjusted for inflation?

[Poser]

The article quotes dollar figures and says nothing about inflation or any other factor.

[presently no screen name]

WOW! Get educated! I’m assuming you can read but with that statement I maybe giving you too much credit.

[rmlew]

That is an 49 to 90 Billion is 83% increase not a 100% increase. That's bad enough.
Texas's Gross State Product only grew from 2981.299 Billion in 2001 to $3786.41 Billion in 2010 in 2000 Dollars. That is a 27% growth in GSP. The population grew 20% to 25.145 million in that period.
This means that there was real growth of only 7% in the economy, but 60% in the budget. Some record.

[Quicksilver]

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