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Legal gamesmanship threatens our energy future (Montana looks to Rick Perry's TX model)
Billings Gazette ^ | July 2, 2011 | By DON STERHAN‌

Posted on 07/02/2011 2:39:28 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is able to boast about job growth under his watch, noting that over 265,000 jobs, or nearly 37 percent of the jobs created nationwide since the summer of 2009, have been created in the Lone Star state.

He credits this growth to a few simple conditions: low taxes, a regulatory climate that is fair and predictable, and a legal system that limits frivolous lawsuits. According to the Wall Street Journal, nearly one-fourth of the 70 companies that left California this year relocated to Texas.

When new or relocating companies and investors survey the landscape and consider Montana, what do they see? Well, when it comes to natural-resource development, the landscape looks risky.

Recent headlines highlight two major resource development projects slogging through endless legal and regulatory challenges. Investment flees this kind of uncertainty, so Montanans interested in the future economic stability of this state should be wary of the signals we send.......

(Excerpt) Read more at billingsgazette.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: business; environment; lawsuits; naturalresources
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Who are you to tell others not to take the time to listen to a short interview — then continue to press that advice in post after post, while insulting me in the process?

You really are a trip. I gave a specific reason to one poster not to listen to the interview, and now you are trying to spin it that I don' want people listening to it.

You think this is hurting Perry?

No, but your antics of misdirection and spewing La Raza anti-fence spin sure don't help him.

41 posted on 07/02/2011 11:34:03 AM PDT by dirtboy
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