“However, Perry is clearly not an “oper-borders” advocate, nor is he a “tax hiker.”
Perry agrees with Obama on open borders:
http://www.factoverfiction.com/article/3195
Rick Perry and the largest tax hikes in Texas:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2768671/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2768671/posts
From your link:
"In 2006, the state was facing a judicial mandate to change the unconstitutional way it funded public schools, mostly through property taxes. Under Perry's leadership, a tax swap was created that cut school property taxes by up to one-third. To pay for that, Perry signed a bill that nearly tripled the amount Texas collects from businesses. The tax swap created a net tax decrease, but the new business tax coupled with one added to tobacco still counts as the largest tax increase in Texas."
So in other words, the assertion you made is actually more or less false. What Perry did was sign a bill that basically concentrated the tax base more towards business and away from property taxes (which business also pay, and which I would imagine partially mitigated the business income tax increase). Since no hard numbers are given in the article, but since the article DOES say that there was a net tax DECREASE (i.e. total overall revenue actually went down), it stands to reason that property taxes brought in a little over three times as much revenue as business income tax, and shifting a third of that revenue from property to business income taxes greated a (relative) drastic increase in the business tax rate, even if overall state tax revenues went down as tax burden was lifted from property owners.
Hardly supports the "tax hiker" claim that you've made. After all, the state was more or less required to do something along this line, so anybody in office would have basically had to do the same thing that Perry did. Further, with overall tax income going down, this hardly equates to "massive tax hikes!!1!!!eleventy11!1"
I can't comment on the open borders video since I can't (or rather won't) run streaming video at work.
“The tax swap created a net tax decrease, but the new business tax coupled with one added to tobacco still counts as the largest tax increase in Texas.”
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(From your “perry tax increaser” article) ... Can you explain for me that sentence? How can procedure that creates a “net tax decrease” be “the largest tax increase”? All that makes sense to me is that the editorial board of that newspaper has done everything possible to defeat Perry.