Why Texas Rocks
"As Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton race around Ohio and Texas for tomorrow's primaries, they are telling a tale of economic woe. Yet the real story isn't how similar the two states are economically but how different. Texas has been prospering while Ohio lags, and the reasons are instructive about what works and what doesn't in economic policy.
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So tomorrow the eyes of America will be on these two states moving in different directions. Ohio has an economy burdened by high taxes and work rules that impose heavy costs on employers. Texas embraces free trade, keeps taxes low, doesn't impose unions on business and has tooled itself for 21st century global competition. Ohioans may not like to hear this, but for any company considering where to locate a new plant or move an existing one, the choice between Ohio and Texas isn't even a close call.
The challenge for our national economy in a world of competition is to become more like Texas and less like Ohio."
Oh, and there's this reason too.
UPDATE: And this, via AOS: Texas Rabbit of Death kicks Monty Python's ass.
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So tomorrow the eyes of America will be on these two states moving in different directions. Ohio has an economy burdened by high taxes and work rules that impose heavy costs on employers. Texas embraces free trade, keeps taxes low, doesn't impose unions on business and has tooled itself for 21st century global competition. Ohioans may not like to hear this, but for any company considering where to locate a new plant or move an existing one, the choice between Ohio and Texas isn't even a close call.
The challenge for our national economy in a world of competition is to become more like Texas and less like Ohio."
Oh, and there's this reason too.
UPDATE: And this, via AOS: Texas Rabbit of Death kicks Monty Python's ass.
Labels: guns, killer rabbits, politics, Texas
posted by scalpel at 4:56 AM
19 Comments:
Scapel, the last link (this reason) doesn't give you an article. Could you redo it?
Very few people actually grasp that high business taxes, for instance, actually keep businesses away, so liberals will thrive in states like Ohio.
In my state, very liberal hand-out plans were enacted maybe 6 or 7 years ago for "the poor", which put the burden of the cost on business. The new Republican leadership when they took office scaled back these handouts and lifted some of the business taxes. Amazingly, poverty went DOWN, jobs went UP.
This was the tax proposal that nurses were called "unethical" for not supporting (in local publications for nurses that we all get, etc). I wrote a letter of complaint and explained economics 101 (and was offered a job with the union---no thanks).
After the liberal tax hikes were repealed, MORE people were insured overall (privately, after their businesses added insurance or hired more people), not fewer!
Yet, nobody learns. Republicans just help business at the expense of the poor, even though helping business DOES help the poor and everyone else. *Sigh*
Fixed the link.
Damn I dont really condone social handouts (e.g. EMTALA, medicaid ,social security and such) but painting grass all green where corporatism is everything is just wrong as well. Corporation never care for anything but the profit, it can be good if it is in for competition market, but the fact is there are isle of competitive markets among the sea of monopolies and oligarchies . Halliburton and Enron like .
Oh scalpel.....me and my baby daddy comin' to your state with our 10 youngens and we coming to yo house coz I'm preggers agin...will you take us in?
Maybe Texas prosperity is due to the million illegal immigrants. Think twice about building that wall pa'dner! :P
Wow if everyone is as tough as that rabbit no wonder Texas does so well!
Thant rabbit video is hilarious - although the accent of the guys recording it and making comments is almost as funny!
Re: Economic policy Texas/Ohio. Ok, but you don't see any other differences between the two? No confounders?
Re: Killer Rabbits. On behalf of all the rabbits out there, go baby!
Interesting scalpel. I didn't know that. Also didn't know rabbits chased snakes. Too funny! :)
Re: Economic policy Texas/Ohio. Ok, but you don't see any other differences between the two? No confounders?
Well, in Texas we have lots of Texans, who generally are superior in almost every way. So, yeah.
But our low taxes and low tolerance for unions (and other forms of BS) are equally important.
I Hear Ya scalpel !!! too bad we all cannot learn how to be a rabbit when that incident takes place !!! this would be how all of us not just the proud, fearless peoples in Texas should be !! But it ain't, so rock on Texans !!!!
oops, I mean but it is not!!! hehe
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Scalpel...my uncle worked in NY as a crane operator (helped build the WTC)and very much believed in unions. Yet...he voted conservatively and was probably one of the most influential people in my life regarding politics. I call myself a bleeding heart conservative because I am so very much for a strong military defense, but I also believe we should have certain social programs and we need balance between the parties.
I know there are issues with union but they have helped people too.
My husband never belonged to the union. His boss embezzled money from him and a coworker. The boss was management. In this case...management tried to protect their own and would have sold my husband and his co-worker down the river without thinking twice about it instead of pursue the truth. The odds my husband faced were ...well let's put it this way...no one thought he would win.
BUT...it was the union...that came to his rescue even though he was never a member. It was a 20 month fight - delays and then finally the showdown with the arbitrator and the opposing sides.
Long story short...he won...the TRUTH prevailed. Oh and we had a lawyer that for 5,000.00 hardly did a thing. It was the union...all the way that saved his job...probably our house and restored his good reputation. ha...as much as one can be restored after all the negative things that are lies go into the papers or on the news. They even lied and then had to print a retraction that of course was tiny and buried on page 39. The opposing side actually tried to use the trumped up article as part of their evidence but then we presented the retraction. Stupid!
Needless to say...my husband belongs to the union, pays the dues but is not actively involved.
So...I have mixed feelings about unions.
I lived in Texas during a previous time when there was no work in the Midwest, then some years followed when there was no work in Texas, and now there's work there again. All things being equal, I'd much rather be in Ohio. Then again, I've landed in a profession where there's plenty of work and unionization is pretty much unnecessary.
As an lifelong Ohio-an, I. . .
Yeah, I got nothin'.
Although we're not really a "mandatory union" state. That would be Michigan.
Columbus is doing fairly well, and Cleveland is finally starting to turn it around.
that rabbit kicks freakin' ass. is that rabbit a jackalope hybrid?
Crap Scalpel! I live near Toledo, Ohio midway between the heavy-duty rust and the Rustoleum. There is every reason for that town to prosper---I-75 crosses I-80 and I-90 right there. It's right on the St. Lawrence Seaway with plenty of water from Lake Erie, railroads criss-cross there, but we are plagued with die hard labor unions that go on strike when the companies tell them that they are almost bankrupt. The last person out needs to turn out the lights to save the environment. Keep telling it like it is!
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