Posted on 01/08/2012 11:24:54 AM PST by Innovative
"We need to be focusing on how do we create the environment in this country where the entrepreneurs know that they can risk their capital, have a chance to have a return on the investment and create the jobs out there so people can have the dignity to take care of their families," said Gov. Perry. "That's what Americans are looking for. I've done that for the last 11 years in the state of Texas and have the executive governing experience that no one else up here on this stage has."
Gov. Perry has the strongest record of job creation of all the candidates, having established a pro-business, pro-jobs and pro-innovation environment in the state of Texas. Under Gov. Perry, Texas has created more than one million net new jobs and ranked first in job creation. Under President Obama, America has lost two million jobs.
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The facts do not support your statement. At this point, if anybody is helping Romney it would be those keeping the 5% Perry has from going to the top conservative who needs the 5% to beat Romney
Romney 30%
Gingrich 23%
Santorum 19%
Paul 9%
Perry 5%
I like Perry (but he's not strong enough on illegals for me to support him in the primaries). Now you look at these numbers and tell me just who is helping Romney???
Perry should’ve dropped out after IA like he was initially going to do.
Perry stated that those who oppose reduced tuition have no heart. It is listed at one site as one of the most remembered quotes of 2011.
I'm guessing if you could find out who was helping Lisa Murkowski, you'd pretty much have your answer. Answers to those kinds of questions have proven to be elusive.
It’s a shame that the offended don’t understand the issue.
BS
He is on record supporting this. And it cost him a drop in polls.
Well, what state exactly was your friend a 'resident' of anyway? Was it TX? On tax day, did he file TX income tax forms? Even if he was in TX based on military service, it was always his option to change his residency legally to TX...so why didn't he?
Usually, military personnel choose their state of residence based on what costs them less in taxes...i.e., they can maintain their state of residence from when they entered the service if it is advantageous from a tax standpoint...or they can switch.
But I don't see why your friend's plight in paying for his kid's college is a mark against Perry if he wasn't a TX resident.
Perry torpedoed his own campaign by doubling down on this issue. Perry has no one else to blame but himself.
I’m sorry but if he does not understand this fundamental issue, then he will not get conservative support.
It’s not just me saying it. Look at where he sits in most of the polls. 5% on average.... They is not going to get it. Like I said he torpedoed his own campaign with this I’m going to reward the illegals behavior. Sorry that does not fly for the average conservative. Perry can explain himself to the moon and you will never convince most conservatives.
Mr. TTC? Are you kidding?
I was placed in the same boat by those fools because of my time in the military and working oversea's . Behind the illegals, you don't qualify, gringo!
You need to take down that BS poster. Perry supports lower taxes? That is BS! He (along with State Comptroller Susan Combs) has raised property taxes in my county two years in a row, essentially doubling property taxes in this county.
Usually, military personnel choose their state of residence based on what costs them less in taxes...i.e., they can maintain their state of residence from when they entered the service if it is advantageous from a tax standpoint...or they can switch.
But I don’t see why your friend’s plight in paying for his kid’s college is a mark against Perry if he wasn’t a TX resident.
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I know. If he had been smart enough to be an illegal alien instead of having served his country for 25 years, he’d have been able to skip all of that stinkin’ paperwork and just pay thousands of dollars less, thanks to Perry.
Go ahead and vote for him, I don’t care, but I won’t pretend that, given this example as well as the view from the ground, here in TX, that Perry is tough on illegal immigration.
Military dependents have pretty loose residency requirements - the parents must never have declared themselves Texas residents at all if the child didn’t qualify.
http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/ED/htm/ED.54.htm
The State does not impose property taxes. That’s your local school district, county and city.
No wonder they did, since people like you don’t pay attention to the School Board, the City Council, the County Commissioners. You are responsible for knowing this. You are responsible for holding the wrong people to account.
You obviously did not maintain Texas as your state of residency during your time in the military - why is that?
If you had, you’d have qualified for instate tuition.
Your post makes no sense.
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Military 101 - You get into the military at age 18 or 22, or so, depending on status, ROTC, Academy, whatever.
You get stationed somewhere in or out of the US at a base, most likely. Every 18 months to 3 years, or so, you have a change of station for which you move to, most often, a different state or country, and you reside in that place, keeping your permanent (official) residence the state from which you came, or another state, depending on your preference and other factors, there are certain rules and regulations. You don’t change your permanent residence every time you move.
When you retire, or otherwise get out of the military, and you then live in a state that is not the same as your permanent residence, you then must change the state of your permanent residence to the one in which you reside.
So, you can actually live in a particular state for many years, but if you apply for official residency later than a certain amount of time before applying for in state tuition rates (for Texas, I thought it was two years, but am told here, it is three), then you and your family members do not qualify for in state tuition rates, at least not right away.
However, if you come into the state from another country illegally, and I am guessing this does not apply to just any old country, then, under current laws, over which this Governor presides, then you have no rules; you get in state tuition rates for you and your family.
This fact, when recently revealed in the primary, (look at the responses to my post #3) cost Perry much support. THe injustice is apparent to many, he, however, seemed surprised that it would gall anyone. And that in itself should portray the atmosphere in Austin.
How did I do with that explanation?
See my post #38
Military dependents have pretty loose residency requirements - the parents must never have declared themselves Texas residents at all if the child didn’t qualify.
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You are correct.
They were very silly. THey should have known three years prior that he was going to retire; that they were going to stay in Tx; and that their child was going to go to school in Tx.
Those are some of the many decisions which the miltary members face routinely. The chances they take with their finances are some of the challenges they face, and they are able an willing.
Illegal aliens in Tx, however have this one taeken care of for them.
They have a big advantage over military members in this regard.
Many see that as a problem. Perry does not. He says we are heartless over it.
OK.
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