They might revoke my Texas citizenship if I didn’t brag about this.
The eight states with no state income tax grew 18% in the last decade. The other states (including the District of Columbia) grew just 8%.
The 22 states with right-to-work laws grew 15% in the last decade. The other states grew just 6%.
The 16 states where collective bargaining with public employees is not required grew 15% in the last decade. The other states grew 7%. …
Texas’ economy has diversified far beyond petroleum, with booming high-tech centers, major corporate headquarters and thriving small businesses. It has attracted hundreds of thousands of Americans and immigrants, high-skill as well as low-skill. Its wide open spaces made for low housing costs, which protected it against the housing bubble and bust that has slowed growth in Phoenix and Las Vegas.
The states, said Justice Brandeis, are laboratories of reform. The 2010 census tells us whose experiment worked best. It’s the state with the same name as the county that’s the center of the nation’s population: Texas.
One of the lowest tax burdens in the nation, one of the most stable housing markets, and home to more Fortune 500 corporations than any other state. That’s Texas, and it’s no accident. The GOP-controlled government here lives by a couple of simple rules: Don’t tax everything that moves, and don’t spend all the money.
Does Texas have a lot of tech companies which are hiring and is the level of pollen low? These are important in cementing my sudden desire to live there after I finish college. ^_^
I’m sure they have plenty of tech companies, and you can buy allergy medication.
High tech firms are all over, but seem to be a bit more concentrated in the Austin area — Dell and facebook plus some other firms like Freespace. The pollen this time of year can be rough, but you get used to it. The one-week winter more than makes up for it.
Actually, most high tech companies are located in the Dallas area… Austin is the center of the liberal, university types… Some high tech, but definitely liberal.
This place is not all it is cracked up to be
The weather is horrible for about 10 months a year and te pollen is out of control
Go to Michigan, New York or Illinois
Heh! Lived in Grand Rapids for several years and I can tell you that anything in Texas is better! Now if you are a skier or snow machine fellow, you will be lost for sure.
As to horrible weather 10 months out of the year – come on fellow! Are you describing the winters in Michigan?
I guess if you are a snowbird, the warm weather might seem extreme to you, but to most, it is a blessing compared to freezing your a$$ off…heh.
My years in Michigan caused me undue hardship – several off the road incidences due to black ice, a couple due to many inches of snowfall, others dues just to extreme cold. If I had any choice at all, I will take Texas and warmth over Michigan and it’s freezing weather…
Nice of you to offer your opinion though… I have always wondered why northerners wanted the cold weather.
I never hurt my back shoveling sunshine in Texas. And all you allergy sufferers should start taking daily doses of local honey.
Heh! I think you’re just trying to send liberals back to the blue states!
A few tech companies in the Central Texas area (i.e. Austin) MAY be hiring…not many! As for the allergy season….Winter only lasts about a week as the other poster stated…however…the CEDAR and the PINE POLLEN last all year long!!!! I hear Raleigh-Durham has some tech companies!
Ha. We in NC just kinda (with the exception of GovBev for 2 more years) threw off the yoke of 100+ years of Dem rule. So our unemployment is still well into double digits, might take a while until NC is the next Texas in job growth.
AND NC is known as a “pine” state so good luck escaping the pollen here.
SHHHHHHH!
Bryan – You and everyone else needs to stop telling the truth about what is going on here. As a real conservative I am not suggestng any of us lie about anything (afterall we live in the world of hard truths and that is why our ideas have real traction) but anyone that loves the state should stop shouting its praises.
Leftism is like a plague of locusts. Once they devour the short lived fruit of the policies they voted for, the locusts will seek out an up and coming “paradise” – that would be US. They are attracted by the relative wealth, stability and quality of life but once they arrive they will hear the echo of the “progressive” ideas in their head and will begin to vote en masse for ideas that would “improve” their new home. You know, green this and that, laws regulating what you can eat, more money for the education monopoly, etc…. and alas sooner or later the new home is very much like the one they fled with an out of control government.
I suggest we support and promote the 70′s paradigm – you know like the one that Hollywood and Norman Mailer helped create – of Texas as backward, racist and ignorant. Perhaps that image will redirect the hordes of refugees that come here to some other place and we can start to see fewer California, Illinois, New York and Michigan license plates in the area.
“I suggest we support and promote the 70′s paradigm – you know like the one that Hollywood and Norman Mailer helped create – of Texas as backward, racist and ignorant.”
Seth McFarlane has helped preserve it as well… The show “Family Guy” talking about “how many gays they can execute”… When I watched that episode, I told my husband to change the channel immediately.
We both kissed the Northeast goodbye thirteen years ago and moved to TX. Our two children were born here. Number of regrets: zero.
Hey, I am an allergy sufferer. I live in North Texas and if I can survive here anyone can
As I have said elsewhere, the Texas economy has taken a hit just like everywhere else but we have the structure, the foundation in place to recover from shocks that the Blue states could only wish for. Our set-up also lessens the impact of downturns when they happen.
Yes, move to Texas. Jump on the Ark of the U.S economy, son! All the best and the brightest will realize it sooner or later.
Oh yeah… and lets remind people that we fought on the side of the South during the war of Northern aggression.
Hmmm., Are you trying to sabotage efforts to recruit workers to Texas? Sure seems that way, but can’t understand why. You seem to going way back in history to discourage those that might reside here…??
Wondering what your motives are?
Read his previous post. And look at what happened to the states near NY and CA when the libs moved their after destroying their own states with their policies. They moved to escape what they had created, then voted to create it again in their new homes.
Workers like that Texas doesn’t need.
All the census proves is that Texas has a long border with Mexico.
No question that a lot of the – perhaps the majority – of newcomers are illegal aliens – and some legal immgrants (whole neighborhoods of wealthy people from Monterrey have moved to San Antonio)- from Mexico.
But the eyes do not lie. I have seen more foreign licens plates – from really exotic places – like California, New York, Michigan and Illinois (hmmm, all of the liberal paradises – imagine that) multiply like fire ants in the past two years.
Stop immigration from the other states – we can handle the Mexicans.
Don’t tax everything that moves, and don’t spend all the money.
Gov Perry and his boys may have gone a bridge to far in this area. Back in ’06 they cut local independent school districts ability to raise revenue by a third with the promise that they would replace it with state revenue raised through a bevy of new statewide taxes. Two bienniums later and the “projected Thvenue” has fallen short by about ten billion dollars per biennium. What kind of honest politician misses his guess by ten billion? Ehh….sorry, we’re talking about Perry here. Perry wants to run for president, and Dewhurst, the ltgov wants to run for KB Hutchinson’s senate seat. The last thing either of them want to do is to fix their screw up from 2006. Cause that would involve a tax hike. The end result being that there will be 100,000 Texans who have been employed by local independent school districts, and local healthcare facilities who are unemployed this coming September. A hundred thousand is a lot of folks to throw under the bus even in a state the size of TX. But if Slick Rick can end up in the WH at least it’ll get him out of here.
Estimado Pendejo (that means “Dear Dumba**”)
The country and many states – including Texas – have many problems. In my view though NONE of them are because the government is too small or has too little money (remember that ALL government is overhead on the national balance sheet and does not PRODUCE any new wealth – new wealth comes from productivity – something that the governemnet does not even try to measure in most of its operations. whatever the plan or promise was I have no problem that the money is not there. Thelate great Milton Frideman once said – paraphrase – I support a tax cut for anyone, at any time, in any amount, for any reason. To that I would add – in any way. The idea is sthat $in the hands of private individuals are always used more effectively than in the hands of a burocracy.
The schools and all other levels of government need to learn what your AVERAGE tax payer already knows – how to tighten the belt.
I’m ready for what you suggest. Let’s take the minimal taxation to it’s logical conclusion. No govt period. Every man for himself. I stocked up on food, guns, and ammo immedietly after the election results came out in November of ’08. I’m ready to thin the herd.
pendejo grande’s got an issue, but he’s on the wrong side of it. TX school districts have a LOT of bloat (not in the classroom, but in administration). The LAST thing we’d want to do it let them keep that bloat by puffing up spending levels.
If they’d whack the administration in half and get it back to doing its job, I might even go back to teaching. Might.
So…..locally elected school boards have voluntarily taken on way to much payroll just so they could be overstaffed with administrators? That’s the whole problem? Why would locally elected school boards all over the state do that to themselves? Has every community in Texas elected nothing but fools to their school boards? Fools who can’t figure out how much staffing their district requires? Fools who don’t ask questions when it is proposed to them that an extra adminstrator is required?
Because the state legislature and the US DOE has put up all kinds of hoops for schools to have to jump through in order to meet accountability standards. And somebody has to be tasked with making sure that the district gets through those hoops and then files the paperwork with the state and the feds verifying it. Twenty five years ago school districts didn’t need district testing coordinators to make sure that literally tons of paper moves between their district and the Pearson publishing warehouse in Austin in a timely manner. Twenty five years ago school districts didn’t have to have a Special Ed director to make sure that every single detail from IDEA was being attended to. Twenty five years ago there was no NCLB and thus no need to have an administrator to make sure the district is compliant with it. Twenty five years ago school districts weren’t forced to provide seperate educational enviornments for their criminal students. They just expelled them. I could go on and on. All of which means more administrators. So now the legislature wants to cut funding by 8 – 10% without removing those hoops. And your response is that they cut the fluff. The fluff in school most school districts is what would get the average Texan to screaming bloody murder if it were cut. It’s called extra-curricular activities.