Posted on 03/08/2010 6:04:03 AM PST by jmaroneps37
The contrast between Texas and California is so stark as to question the very possibility of the Golden State ever returning to balanced budget prosperity.
Liberal strongholds in San Francisco and Los Angeles have provided Democrats with the Legislative punch to gain a strangle hold on California’s governmental operations.
The far Left nature of both of these cities has led to the State’s complete capitulation to its public employees unions. The incestuous relationship these unions have with Sacramento Democrats has produced a “taxpayer be damned” attitude that will make curbing the costs of governing California virtually impossible.
Trading taxpayers for tax burners
The Census Bureau estimates that since 2000 more than 1.5 million taxpaying Californians have run away. This loss coupled with the coinciding arrival of a like number of tax money burning immigrants (legal and illegal) means California is headed toward becoming the first failed American state.
Texas: low taxes growing prosperity
Texas on the other hand has low taxes no state income tax and a growing economy to show for it.
Texas calls it’s Legislature together for just one 90 day session every two years. It’s almost nonexistent public employee union members work FOR the State of Texas. The State of Texas does NOT work for them.
Texans get genuine service from their civil servants. While its teachers are paid less than California’s teachers, Texas students score higher on standardized tests.
People across the country are moving into Texas yet its unemployment rate is lower than the national average. California’s unemployment is substantially higher.
Because of its pro-business atmosphere so many people will have moved into Texas that it’s on track to gain four new Congressional Districts all of which will likely be new Republican seats.
Texas is thriving; California is dying: Liberalism kills conservatism builds.
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I still live in Austin, well...outside of Austin. We’re trying really hard to keep the libs ‘fenced in’ so they don’t spread too far. Thankfully, they seem to prefer infesting the downtown area thanks to all the new ‘Roach Motels’ (ie. condos) being built there. It’s nice to see the stories about Texas doing well, but I don’t think a lot of people living outside of Texas understand that there has been a very gradual (and disturbing) trend towards the DIMs in the state political arena over the last couple years. The huge majorities that Repubs and conservatives used to hold is now very very small and it would take only one election to turn control. The problem mostly stems from libs moving in from out-of-state looking for jobs and bringing their union-minded, something-for-nothing mentality with them.
I’m starting to get worried about Texas, though. We’ve lost Houston to the libs. Just look at their mayor. Bill White, the donk candidate for gov, is a former mayor of Houston.
If we lose one more big city, we could go the way of California.
Houston, Austin and now Dallas has turned blue...Fort Worth is on its way...We’re 10-12 years away from turning into a blue state.
Houston will swing back. The 2008 mistakes were elected because of Papa Doc Barack being on the ticket. Of course, part of the problem is the RINO element in the R leadership. In any event, people here will elect a corpse before they vote for a D in any county election. Dallas is probably moving the same direction.
Austin is different - it is liberal because state government jobs + university twits = liberal. It has been that way for a long time.
Permanent me class in Kalifornia.....flakey citizens!!!
Same thing happen in Arizona -- soon there will be no place to run. We need to take care of the socialists where we stand.
Not if the shooting starts first. Make a list for when the balloon goes up.
Higher than who, I am a native born Texan and do not have as high a property taxes than most of the nation. We also have no state income tax.
Austin is a nut magnet.
“My only concern is these transplants from other liberal states bring their liberal mindsets and vote for brain-dead DemocRAT candidates at election time.”
That is the concern for many of us. Texas’ distinctiveness is being diluted by those reverse-Okies from Kalifornicationstan.
“I live in Texas after Kansas, and while no income tax is nice, it’s made up for in much higher property taxes.”
Welcome to Texas. My kids went to Shawnee Mission schools and taxes in Johnson County were out of sight but they had the best public education in the U.S. so we didn’t mind. Public schools in Texas are not good, particularly considering how much money is spent and they are bloated with administrators which need to go! Go to school board meetings and protest - if enough people do it, it can make a difference. Be prepared to take on the union though.
“Houston, Austin and now Dallas has turned blue...Fort Worth is on its way...We’re 10-12 years away from turning into a blue state.”
A lot of it is demographics in the large urban areas like Dallas and Houston. Hispanics (and Blacks) are now the majority in both cities and now the counties as well.
Thanks to illegal immigration (and GWB not to mention BHO).
I’d hate to guess how many of these illegals are now voting.
While I know that many of the newcomers here are Lib, there’s still quite a few Conservatives moving in as well.
And our young people are still having babies (but not as many as they used to).
Sadly, the most common boy’s name in Texas is now Jose!
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Sounds like what happened in Colorado.
Teachers make more in Texas than Kansas on an average starting salary as well, which is odd.
Re teacher’s pay in Texas versus Kansas. Don’t know about that but I do know that their health and pension coverage are at a Bentley level! My grandchildren go to private schools down here. I will work until I’m 90 if I have to to keep them out of the public school system.
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