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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecypresstimes.com ...
One article said Perry would handily win the TX primary on April 3 if he were still in the race then, but I wonder.
The governor and comptroller cannot raise state property taxes in TX because there are no state property taxes. But there are hefty school district property taxes and also such taxes for cities and counties, usually more for the city than the county. People in TX often vote high taxes on themselves, particularly in liberal areas.
On the subject of Tancredo and Hayworth...what exactly did they do to bolster border security? Talk and legislation sure didn't reduce the number of illegals crossing the border. Has New Mexico or AZ deployed State Troopers to the border? Perry has done that. Have they deployed drones to the border to lower the level of border crossings? Perry and the Republic of Texas has done that. And Sheriff Joe...I'm a big supporter of Sheriff Joe but his actions are directed to those that have already crossed the border. His actions are not border control.
I'm sure you did your best.
Well, support him then.
What does 3 years have to do with your friends? Military and dependents only need 6 months of declared residency if there was a year of residency in the past. If there wasn’t a year in the past, one year is required before they become resident.
Since Texas doesn’t have an income tax, I don’t understand why anyone here wouldn’t declare themselves a resident, especially if they had children who were soon to be in college.
The only thing that Governor Perry commented on was the very narrow exemption from non-resident tuition. The heartless comment came as he was attacked by several of the candidates over the law that only affects 17 or 18 year olds who are brought to the country before they’re 15, who are in our schools due to the Feds’ force on Texas, and who are assimilated in our culture enough to graduate from our high school and are accepted to our colleges.
Defend him all you can with a lot of words. Perry’s campain died over this issue. It is a loser to many. Obviously, others are fine with it.
Nevertheless, he is not tough on immigration.
If so, why does the local tax assessor claim that all property taxes in Bandera County were raised by the order of the state comptroller? Sorry, hocndoc, but we have had some bad moves done down here, and a lot of finger pointing goes straight to Austin.
You obviously did not maintain Texas as your state of residency during your time in the military - why is that?
Uh, when you claim a state of residency while in the military, it remains so until the troop changes it. I claimed Texas as my state of residency in 1987, yet in 2002, I was told by a low level bureaucrat that I was not a Texas resident because I was working in Bosnia, i.e. not physically in Texas. SACC even had an issue with my Texas DL, claiming that a number on it meant that I hadn't lived in the state for several years.
I did not qualify for in-state tuition because I never re-enlisted while stationed in Texas.
BULLSH*T. I am hit with a hefty property tax bill this year, and the Bandera County Tax Assessors Office points directly at the state comptrollers office. We have gone through this same argument last year when many in Bandera protested the property tax hikes.
Are you telling me that Bandera Tax Assessors Office is lying?
That's a pretty wild assertion there, hockeydoc, considering you don't know me outside of this forum, nor do you know what I have been doing in the past year.
Here’san explanation about school property taxes and the Comptroller
http://www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/proptax/ptax5.html
Sounds like the audit forschool taxes might havefound your values more than 5% lower than the State wide values.
Here’s a table of County tax rates: http://www.county.org/resources/countydata/products/taxrates/index.html
I googled your County taxes and the news about them.
Here’s the notice that your county commissioners voted on their tax rate - same rate as the year before, with more properties, according to this:
http://www.banderacounty.org/documents/2011BanderaCountyNoticeTaxRevenueIncrease.pdf
Here’s your County’s history of tax rates
http://www.banderacounty.org/departments/TaxRate.htm
Here’s a letter to the editor about your tax rates
http://www.bccourier.com/Archives/Opinion_detail.php?contentId=7253
Here’s a note about a tax rate decrease in 2010, due to increased property values:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Bandera-County-avoids-tax-boost-not-criticism-651869.php
Concurring bump. People who say Perry is strong on immigration and border issues are just spreading misinformation.
Worse, though, is the way that Perry arrives at all his positions, which is mainly by subscription to the needs of his financial backers. There is a strong possibility that he is basically unprincipled.
Which raises the further possibility that Perry, in the White House, would do a volte-face on many issues , abandon the conservative base completely, and embrace the full smorgasbord of East Coast Elite agenda and NWO issues quite openly.
Perry is basically for rent, imho.
No, but there is the "Robin Hood Plan" business, and the creaming off of certain %'s of collections by tax assessors in wealthy counties and the transfer payment of those %'s to "poor" counties (tax eaters) as a kind of liberal cumshaw engineered by Tax Eater attorneys in front of a roundheeled liberal judge somewhere, who ordered Texas to take taxes from some counties and give them to other (tax eater) counties.
I'll bet the county of which he spoke is getting shortfalls in the cumshaw money from the State, and blaming the State for their financial woes. They should write a letter to Obama, he's paying all those cell-phone and electric bills up in DC and Chicago.
Your post is more misinformation to again counter the effective dissemination of the truth about Rick Perry's strong stand on border security.
Gov. Perry has been fighting for a secure border and calls for NO amnesty while the Federal government allows the border to remain open and illegals to get waivers.
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Jan 8, 2012: Re: “hardship waivers” ….”House liberals cheer proposed Obama administration immigration reform ......"Becerra on Friday said Republicans left the White House no other option but to act unilaterally on immigration reform.
President Obama is right," he said. "We can't wait for Republicans in Congress to stop playing this nasty game of politics, blocking immigration reform legislation, which is tearing families and America apart."
ICE blamed for Texas parolee law delayThe state has been unable to enforce a new law designed to increase the deportations of illegal immigrants from the Texas prison system amid concerns that federal immigration officials are unprepared to handle the anticipated influx of convicted criminals, state officials said.
Under the new law, which was scheduled to take effect Sept. 1, state prisoners who are granted parole and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials must either be deported or leave the country voluntarily - or risk being returned to state custody to serve out the remainder of their sentences.
The law was crafted to address a vexing problem identified by the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, which reported granting parole to some illegal immigrants and turning them over to ICE - only to later learn that they were not removed from the country, said state Rep. Jerry Madden, R-Plano.”………………..
Mexico’s drug war is giving growers a break EL BARRIL, Mexico — The Mexican government is allowing domestic marijuana and opium poppy production to climb to record levels, as soldiers who once cut and burned illegal crops here in the vast Sierra Madre mountains are being redeployed to cities to wage urban warfare against criminal gangs.
Since President Felipe Calderon ordered his troops into the streets in late 2006, the acreage dedicated to marijuana farming has nearly doubled in Mexico, according to technical reports by the U.S. government and the United Nations, data provided by the Mexican military, and interviews with law enforcement agents and growers.
The acreage devoted to opium poppies has also soared, according to the U.S. State Department, making Mexico the second-leading heroin producer in the world, after Afghanistan, whose crop goes mostly to Europe and Asia.......
“Yes, it is a change in strategy, as the army now gives priority to catching criminals and seizing cocaine, which is far more valuable to the cartels” than marijuana or heroin, said Raul Benitez, an expert in drug trafficking and national security at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
The Mexican government, Benitez said, also cares less about marijuana cultivation these days because the U.S. government appears to care less.”………………..
Still no solution for illegal immigrants' long-term care costs…………..”Still, the real problem isn't hospitals, which transfer most all patients, both U.S. citizens and illegal immigrants, once urgent care is no longer needed and the bed is needed for other patients. It's long-term care facilities, unable to afford to accept patients, like Martinez, who don't have insurance. It remains for hospitals, obligated by federal regulation to arrange post-hospital care for those who need it, to find alternatives and to provide care indefinitely if they can't....
Lie, then dump when called.
Your post is false, Rick Perry's a RiNO on immigration. He rolled over for Butts et al. last summer on the border issues, and everybody knew it. And they knew why, too.
That's rich: Linking (blogpimping) one of your own vanity posts in "rebuttal"!
Buncombe. Your boy's a wage-busting, labor-market-flooding, big-employer-cosseting Open Borders Lobby governor. Everyone in the Southwest knows it.
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