Posted on 04/05/2010 6:44:18 AM PDT by deport
Cut welfare spending and SCHIP.
Forget TTC! Sell I-35 to a Spanish Toll company! Charge the illegal immigrants using it both ways! Problem solved.
I believe we should outsource our prisioning of illegals. Take a Mexican who costs something like $100/day to house here in the US and pay his home country to imprison him about $10/day. A few inspections and audits would make sure things were being handled properly. At the end of his term, voila!!! already deported.
I agree that is needed, but will the RINOs actually do it?
Supposedly they have begun looking at budget cuts but I don’t think those will cover the expected shortfall in revenue. We are going to see some taxes or fee increases I believe, it’s just a matter of how much.
Great idea. We aren’t deporting them, we’re outsourcing them!
Yes, those items probably can be cut, but the big expense is state budgets these days is retirement expenses. Missouri is wrestling with this now. We have state employees who are retiring in their 50’s and we have school superindents who are making more than $200,000 per year and retiring in their 50’s to draw about the same amount.
I just don’t know how in the world it can continue—or how much longer poor idiots like us in the private sector are going to stand for it.
They’ll just do what they always do, raise property taxes.
How much of your property tax is for the State Budget?
“scouring the tax code”
How secure is the no state income tax in Texas?
Theyll just do what they always do, raise property taxes.
Heck we may even see some of Texas’ dry counties decide to open up and sell liquor.
How secure is the no state income tax in Texas?
Texas Constitution I believe requires a statewide vote before being allowed.
Good question. Considering how they're the ones that pretty much sent the HHS budget into orbit and brag about how much money they're spending on colonias while insisting that the word means "community", well, I'm not too hopeful.
Certainly they’ll shift more of the burden to local governments, and then you’ll see property taxes really go through the roof.
It’s in the Texas Constitution.
Of course “Republican” Perry passed a “gross receipts” tax on business that is really an income tax, so I suppose he could pass a “gross receipts” tax on people, too.
Just as they always do?
That would mean the state budget would be going down. I haven’t seen that yet.
Cut welfare spending and SCHIP.
No. Eliminate them.
Round up the illegals and ship them back, kick all the liberals out of the state.
Deporting liberals would be the single best thing we could do. It would eliminate a lot of social problems, eliminate the pressure for taxing and spending, and would comfortably down-size Austin.
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