Posted on 02/22/2013 7:44:44 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Lone Star State Governor Rick Perry seriously amped up his West Coast recruiting efforts this month in response to California’s passage of Proposition 30, a statewide vote that dramatically increased the state’s personal income tax rate. Taxpayers there will be paying up to 3% more on earned income, and that increase is retroactive to January 1, 2012. More than a thousand miles away from Sacramento, a far more positive outlook counters the frustration felt by many California employees and business owners.
Just last week Governor Perry met with 200 Golden State business owners, and two weeks ago he purchased $24,000 in radio ads intended to lure entrepreneurs with lower individual taxes and a business-friendly climate. The 30-second spots tout Texas’ “zero income tax, low overall tax burden, sensible regulations and fair tax system.” The targeted campaign and face-to-face marketing efforts appear to be paying off… in spades.
According to the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, since the passage of Prop 30 in the November election, California-based company relocation inquiries have doubled, possibly tripled, in Central Texas. West Coast entrepreneurs feeling the personal financial stress of an out-of-control state budget and tax policy have heard Texas’ message, and they’re responding.
Even California’s Democratic Lt. Governor, Gavin Newsom, has serious concerns about the economic impact of his state’s tax policies. According to John Fund of National Review, Newsom declared after visiting with former California-based companies that now call Texas their home, “I am impressed with the focus on job creation I’ve seen here. We need to have a more balanced business climate in California.” This sign of further working wealth migration from California into Texas brings a more fiscally relevant meaning to George Strait’s country classic, “All My Exes Live in Texas.”
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As I have mentioned to my local rep and all I know in the state capital the down side is enticing all these Californians to move here and bring their politics with them. I’d rather see a promotion to start new businesses here in Texas to compete with them and take the business.
Glenn Beck has talked about this on his program and he is concerned that Texas is becoming more liberal and will be due to so many liberals fleeing from high tax states to reside in Texas.
I know that New Hampshire is going left due to all of the liberals that have left Tax-achusetts and have moved there and demanded the same benefits that have bankrupted Massachusetts.
Sure, like we really need more wacko libs here demanding we turn Texas into CA.
As a new college grad I moved to Texas in 1978 for my first job. I remember a popular song on a local radio station, with the words:
“While your laughing and calling us ‘funny’, we’re going to be helping you spend your money...yeah we’re real glad you decided to move to texas.”
RE: yeah we’re real glad you decided to move to texas
The funny thing is when you exchange the ‘e’ and the ‘a’ in the word — TEXAS, you end up being back in California :)
In 12 short years liberals from California have taken over every county office and are going crazy with environmental rules. They haven't balanced the budget and they control the votes to the point that it just keeps getting worse and no one cares. The dems say its time for payback.
Pour enough cold water into a nice hot soup and it gets cold and tasteless.
Big mistake on Perry’s part to encourage this nonsense. Liberals should be treated as lepers, and left in their self-made colonies on the East and West Coasts.
:: It is becoming more liberal. In the last decade some real stupid has crept in ::
The O&G development areas (West Texas and South-central Texas) are still solidly conservative.
Thank you. When I commented on some of these things a few years ago I got a lot of 'don't let the door hit you on the butt on your way out' comments in response. The biggest thing that horrified me about Texas was that most Texans are too stubborn to admit that they have a growing problem. Any criticism seems to be taken personally. Too many Texans feel so secure that they don't bother to defend their liberty.
Texas shouldn’t be indiscriminate with who they allow to relocate here. There should be very specific criteria that mandate a “Texas Culture” company policy - no “same-sex” benefits, no liberal values.
We don’t want to import Californicators to infect us.
Hey California! WE HAVE NO WATER!
Large parts of Texas are totally drying up—I think it is going to be the return of the Dust Bowl.
This is a very serious problem where I live in central Texas.
RE: Large parts of Texas are totally drying up—I think it is going to be the return of the Dust Bowl.
This is a very serious problem where I live in central Texas.
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So, I guess you’re planning to relocate to another state with plenty of water?
California’s the next ‘detroit’. It’s time to get out while the gettin’s good.
Of course not! I’m a 7th generation Texan and I’m where God planted me.
There is enough water for me, just not for thee-—LOL!
New California state song:
Artist: George Strait
Song: All My Ex’s Live In Texas
Album: Ocean Front Property
Chorus:
All my ex’s live in Texas
And Texas is the place I’d dearly love to be
But all my ex’s live in Texas
And that’s why I hang my hat in Tennessee
Rosanna’s down in Texarkana
Wanted me to push her broom
Sweet Eileen’s in Abilene
She forgot I hung the moon
And Allison’s in Galveston
Somehow lost her sanity
And Dimple’s who now lives in Temple’s
Got the law looking for me
Chorus
I remember that old Frio River
Where I learned to swim
But it brings to mind another time
Where I wore my welcome thin
By transcendental meditation
I go there each night
But I always come back to myself
Long before daylight
All my ex’s live in Texas
And Texas is the place I’d dearly love to be
But all my ex’s live in Texas
Therefore I reside in Tennessee
Some folks think I’m hidin’
It’s been rumored that I died
But I’m alive and well in Tennessee
Texas has some of the same problems as other states—the big cities are liberal rat holes, while other population areas are red. Thus, the big cities drive the electoral votes for the state, and exist as a cancer that sucks the lifeblood from the rest in the state. This has to change. Allow electoral votes to be split. Should this be allowed, the big cities would no longer be an uncontrollable cancer.
Goodbye Texas, hello Texafornia. When the RATS capture the last large red state, you will never have another Republican President. That means that RAT Presidents will choose ALL future members of the Supreme Court. That also means the left will have a blank check to do whatever they want without a constitutional firewall.
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