Business in Texas is Booming

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Fred Stiening

Especially West Texas.

Maybe two weeks ago, WLS was running ads wanting Illinois business people to come meet Governor Perry give his pitch on why they should relocate to Texas because business is booming.

Safety, Schmaftey

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6 Responses to Business in Texas is Booming

  1. CC1s121LrBGT says:
    May 2, 2013 at 9:16 am

    Texas does most things at the county level and as a result has a lower cost of government. Older states, especially in the northeast, do most things on the town and township level and it is much more inefficient.

    For example, one cell phone company had to go from town to town to get approval to build towers. When one town said no, the other let them build on border of the town that said no. Then the first town lawyer-ed up and sued the second that also lawyer-ed up. They spend weeks in front of a judge and his support staff. The loser appealed- why not when everyone is paid to be there and all are paid by tax money.

    Operating on the county level, all that nonsense disappears and the tax payers and business of states like Texas benefit.

    • Art Stone says:
      May 3, 2013 at 2:26 am

      Oddly in Connecticut, counties have borders, but don’t exist as governments. The counties are broken into cities, with all the area within a county being inside a city. According to Wikipedia, that happened in 1960. CT used to be a state with no income tax

      • CC1s121LrBGT says:
        May 3, 2013 at 8:32 am

        That’s right. How many government employees in a state should decide which 4th grade math text book to buy?

        NJ, for example, has 603 school districts but only 21 counties does it on the school district level and has the highest property taxes in the country. FL and TX do it on the county level, have property taxes that are about 25% as high as NJ’s and have no income taxes. NJ’s marginal income taxes are 6.37% if you make $75,000.

  2. briand75 says:
    May 2, 2013 at 3:36 pm

    I suppose we should broaden gun control efforts based on West, Texas. If it wasn’t for guns, there wouldn’t have been an explosion.

  3. HPaws says:
    May 3, 2013 at 7:59 am

    In 2004 (or ’03) Asheville, NC (Buncome County) needed to steal taxpayers and wealth creators to continue to fund lavish and out of control spending addictions. They were able to annex surrounding towns without the express permission of the resident citizens. They have expressed no interest in annexing poor areas at all. These people moved away from perverse social spending and forced support of ne’er-do-well artistic types. There is legislation in the state house that would force neighboring counties to contribute to population ‘hubs’ because even at distances across county political lines they ‘reap the benefits’ of ever expanding city government. I look forward to moving from North Carolina as soon as economically viable for me.

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