Posted on 04/15/2011 7:01:40 AM PDT by Cracker Jack
A delegation of California lawmakers came to Austin on Thursday looking for answers on how to stem their state's massive job outflow.
The bipartisan group included a dozen state officials, among them Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, who have traveled to Texas looking for new ways to bolster the troubled economy in their own state.
"Over the past three years, California has lost 1.2 million jobs, while Texas has actually gained 164,000 jobs," said Assemblyman Dan Logue, a Republican from a district north of Sacramento who organized the trip. "Texas like everybody else was hit by the recession, but they are setting an example on how to grow their way out rather than tax their way out."
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I am left speechless. I love your remark about teaching a pig about Sunday. What else can possibly be said?
At least the pig is feigning interest in Sunday.
We could balance the budget this afternoon. Just with old state funds from sanctuary cities.
CUT OFF BENEFITS TO ILLEGALS. PROBLEM SOLVED!!
Talk about echo chamber, Austin is the eastern most Californian city.
with old => withhold.
*sigh*
Simple answer...make California’s tax rates like Texas and make deficit spending unconstitutional.
The Texans should take them to an all day conference. What the speakers say isn’t important, they might as well talk about their kids or where they went for vacation. But at lunch time, there should be two lines at the cafeteria. The Texans get in line, select what they want, prices showing, and then the cashier adds it up and tells each one what they owe. But the Californians should get a different treatment. First, they have to certify that their lunch trays are made of at least 20% post-consumer recycled plastic. Then they need to file an environmental impact statement about trash. There will be several different brands of drinks available, with fine print on them indicating country of origin. All will be available for sale, but the Californians will need to look up what extra fees will be added to certain bottles of water depending on “fair trade” practices in the different countries. Some of the entrees will have added penalties or incentives, which you only discover after bringing them to the cashier. So they go back and choose different entrees. Etc. Eventually, they will settle on something, maybe not what they want, and be charged for their selected meals, although it might take a while for them to finally decide what it is they wish to eat, based on all the micromanaging incentives and disincentives prior to purchase. Of course they will pay extra tax for the “service” of this micromanagement, on top of everything, which the Texans do not pay.
When they return from lunch, the next speaker will ask whether people liked their lunch or not ... and if the seminar will be continued another day, would anybody in the audience possibly want to change their “state of residence,” for the purpose of buying lunch, from California to Texas? Because this is a microscopic view of what small business owners and otherwise gainfully employed people face every day in California (and increasingly, in America generally).
Whether they get it or not is another question.
Yeah. If they went to a actual Texas city, they might hear things they didn’t want to.
Perfect.
CA really can't be that stupid, can they?
Liberals believe desire trumps reality.
Gavin Newsome (Getty Oil heir, far-Left ideologue) is pontificating why business is leaving the Golden State for the Lone Star State?
Let’s see...carbon tax, sales tax, giant useless bureaucracies, massive debts, millions of illegals who have no screening or enforcement, huge ag fees and costs, bloated, useless bureacracies who fight every angle of business at every turn...
Oh, and thousands of commmited Communists.
Gavin, we have a problem.
Solution: Let Texas voters vote on California politicians.
Welcome to Texas y’all...please don’t forget to leave.
Too late. Liberals don’t listen.
A whole business course in college can be taught on the differences bwetween California and Texas.
Just like a business course can be taught on the differences between Wal Mart and K Mart
Nearly spewed my Coke. The only thing I could add would be:
1. Dump the governor.
2. Dump the legislature.
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