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To: Palter
You must be talking about the Texas Enterprise fund. I am glad you brought it up!

A recent report on the TEF shows that 54,954 direct jobs were created at a cost of $7,455.52 per job, or a total of 190,360 direct and indirect jobs were created, at a cost to the state of $2,308.98 per job since it was established. Considering that the federal government crows about creating a few hundred jobs that cost the taxpayers over $100k per job, it looks like Texas has the right idea. If Perry had $800 billion to spend on job creation like Obama did, by this calculation, he could have created 107,303,045 direct jobs.

The program also has had an amazing return on investment. The state is getting back from a LOW of 27x the investment up to over 100x the investment in increased Gross State Product. And the direct return to the state (increased revenue to the state through taxes) averaged 652%. That means the state received $652.00 in new tax revenue for every dollar invested. This has got to be one of the most effective economic stimulus programs in history!

Thanks to cripplecreek for providing this information. I never realized how effective the TEF program was at job creation. I'll be sure to post this information every time someone brings the subject up.

9 posted on 09/01/2011 11:03:00 PM PDT by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: CA Conservative

Déjà vu?


10 posted on 09/01/2011 11:07:44 PM PDT by Palter (Celebrate diversity .22, .223, .25, 9mm, .32 .357, 10mm, .44, .45, .500)
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