Trash Perry and the Texas legislature all you want, but if it were not for a fortuitous oil boom in North Dakota right now, Texas would lead the nation with an ever improving economy, reducing government (which this move will do), and reducing taxes on businesses in the State to increase the number of businesses moving to Texas (which will further increase job growth).
"Politics"? Sure it is. The most political city in this State .. whines ... "politics"?
But more importantly, do you want a convicted drunk driver prosecuting other drunk drivers?
Apparently the liberals don't have a problem with that ... at least some of the time ..
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLI...dui/index.html
In spite of all the glowing rhetoric about how state leadership has done such a masterful job of not raising taxes and cutting spending, the truth lies somewhere just beyond that rainbow. We just can’t let them get away with the spin. Texas is not the Land of Oz; and the fairy-tale budget logic has to go.
We just can’t afford it any more.
And just so we keep the timeline straight, no public official is getting clothes-lined here. Nobody’s getting ambushed. This follow-up message to our first
Texas Budget Boondoggle Report should come as no surprise to anyone out campaigning. Our message throughout the legislative session, during the special session, and after the budget was passed and signed by the Governor has remained the same.
We cannot support this budget because Texans do not need, do not want, and do not deserve the same kind of spending and budget trickery that goes on in Washington, D.C.
True, there were substantial cuts in some areas. Indeed, $12.1 billion in cuts came from the one-time federal stimulus funds. The overriding issue is this — we cannot support the budget because it has once again been balanced with poison pills – accounting gimmicks, deferrals, one-time fixes, tax payment speed-ups for some businesses, and a “Medicaid credit card.” We cannot support the crony capitalism that doles out tax dollars and steers some pretty lucrative perks to chosen “winners.” We cannot support a budget that continues to ignore the high cost of illegal aliens to this state because there’s no political stomach for interior enforcement of the rule of law.
The
planned state budget deficit for 2013 comes to
$7.1 billion.How did we arrive at this number? There’s no complicated chart or formula (simple math at work here).
A $2.3 billion payment deferral to the Foundation School Program + an underfunded Medicaid caseload growth estimated at $4.8 billion = a $7.1 billion budget deficit. The pure, unvarnished truth is – the Rainy Day Fund is spent!
7$ billion dollars eh ... yeah Perry is an Ace
