He doesn’t sound a lot like George Bush to me on one important issue. From everything I’ve seen and read, he is not a big spender like Lyndon Baines Bush. That is a critical litmus test in this election cycle. No big spenders, period.
No, I meant how he sounds - literally(his voice).
When Bush was governor, total state spending rose 13.3 percent every two years on average. Adjusting the figures for population growth and inflation, that growth rate was 2.3 percent.
Perry took the reins in December 2000. From then until 2011, spending increased an average of 16.8 percent every two years. Once adjusted for population and inflation, that rate falls to 4.2 percent. Adjusted spending figures in the just-passed 2012-13 budget are not yet available.