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Texas = cut taxes, cut spending, balanced budget (!)

Posted: Jan 8, 2013

Too bad Harry Reid and his crew can't get their act together.

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Kudos to Texas and Gov. Perry! - KN

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I'm jealous (non-Texas state).

Yeah, so what? At who's expense? I can guess. - The children, the poor, SM

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the elderly, and students. Shameful education system, but this is what they want. Idiots who vote for them because they don't have the education to think for themselves. The plan all along IMO for republicans.

LOL - don't know much about Texas, do ya? - Texas rube in the black. :))

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nm

The black what? Abyss? - Wise up.

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Hocus-pocus economics 101 don't fool us Lone Star city folk. On-the-backs post is a good intro for beginners.

Previously posted but obviously not read. There's more out there for the taking. Hint: Start with Texas Tribune. They do a good job of stalking Perry's phony baloney (speaking of rubes).

http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/13011/does-the-texas-budget-reflect-texas-values

This one talks about the Rainy Day fund misappropriations. Pay special attention to the last paragraph.

http://www.burntorangereport.com/tag/Rainy%20Day%20Fund

PS. These are the same tactics used by FL Rick Scott - getting mucho airplay in the media.

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They're are both too intellectually challenged to have taught each other, so my guess would be that the voodoo viscal policies are just another one of ALEC's schemes.

Bravo! Great post. Thanks for posting. - nm

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Perry has a demographic growth problem he routinely ignores - when inventing his next PR budget blunders.

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Fortunately, Ezra Klein's wonk crew at WaPo does not suffer from the same malady. This out-of-sight-out-of-mind population will ultimately turn red to purple, then purple to blue. It's just a matter of time.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/rick-perrys-budget-sleight-of-hand/2011/08/15/gIQAuiGCHJ_blog.html

Excellent article. He also likes to hide Texas's biggest - job growth employer: Government! Yup,

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thank a secret progressive political agenda for a very large part of Texas's job growth numbers.

Excellent point. Back in the 70s, State of Texas jobs - were highly desirable

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and much sought after. I worked for them for 5 years and had what felt like built-in union-esque wages, COL and merit raises, vacation and sick pay, health insurance, plenty of upward mobility, and retirement benefits. Now they announce frequent year-to-year hiring and salary freezes and the rest of their benefits offerings have been severely degraded ever since the Bush-Perry takeover.

70s vs. 2000s - sm

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Things have changed economically. Can't fault Perry for sticking to a budget rather than going further into debt.

Changed--yes. Texas is much richer, but those gains plus more - now go to an uber class, not to good wages. nm

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Like I said above, you guys really don't know much about - Texas - it's obvious.

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Perry's "budget" says 0 new school kids over next 2 years, - reality says 160,000 more expected. And it

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goes on, item after item. Even with the cuts to education spending he's been making, big bills are about to pile up, and those are on top of all the hidden costs of not meeting social needs. Texans are going to find themselves up to their armpits in the mess that's brewing.

I posted an article here some months ago about a Texas "experiment" in one type of cutting healthcare costs. Experts in the industry were horrified for what it was going to mean for those hit, but, in a glass half full spirit, expected it to act as a vivid case study of what not to do. Costs will include not only suffering and ruined lives, but also increase in costs for deferred but inevitable healthcare and social services, plus loss of production as workers without healthcare progress to disability.

Meanwhile, business IS booming. Some of it anyway.

Their representatives to Washington had better stop trying to sabotage the recovery so that continued national growth keeps their boat afloat.

On the backs of school kids ($4 bil), sick folks ($4.5 bil) - for 2014 Medicaid growth,

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misappropriation of funds ($3.2 billion), smoke and mirrors "cost shifting" and deferred payment/kick-the-can-down-the-road schemes for another $2.3 billion in educational funds, and shortchanging previous commitments for student financial aid, the state contribution to retirement and health care programs for state employees and teachers retirees, certain direct services provided by state agencies, and formula funding for institutions of Higher Education. They also failed to account for the $10 billion per biennium structural deficit, created by earlier local property tax cuts by ⅓, which would theoretically be replaced by increased General Revenue Funds, based on implementing a business margins tax that has sorely underperformed. I guess that $10 billion will just disappear if they pretend it doesn't exist.

http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/13011/does-the-texas-budget-reflect-texas-values

Texas produces the 49th lowest HS graduation rate - in the nation and of those

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less than half of those student who do graduate are prepared for college according to SAT scores of less than 500 on verbal and math tests. More than half of those admitted to college are required to enroll in remedial classes, but we are TOPS by all business climate measures. There is something fundamentally wrong with this picture, especially when one considers there seems to be no end in sight to educational funding cuts.

Perry's sleight of hand budget factored in Obamacare funds - he claimed he would reject

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back in August once he heard the SCOTUS ruling that states could not be penalized if they refuse to expand Medicaid. Closing the program to new applicants did not stop him from using the funds in state budget projections. See link #1 to see the plan to fill in the gap created when he defunded Planned Parenthood by using Medicaid funds he assumed many impoverished Texans would bring in under the 2014 expanded Medicaid funding. Defunding of PP left some 52,000 women up a creek without a paddle, many of whom reside in remote areas where PP is their only well care provider. Link #2 reports how Perry let the conflicting budget shortfall information stand uncorrected in legal documents, leaving Texans wondering: Is he or isn't he going to accept federal funding for Obamacare? What will happen to the millions of uninsured Texans in 2014 who work those much touted minimum wage jobs (that project a false image of financially secure workers in Texas) who cannot afford insurance without OC subsidies?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/99735956/Attorney-General-s-Letter-With-New-HHSC-Guidelines-on-Texas-Run-WHP

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20120809-texas-left-false-information-about-womens-health-program-in-legal-documents.ece

The fantasy "cut taxes and the kitty'll magically fill itself" - has been disproved over and over. What

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is it Bush said? "...fool me once, shame on â�� shame on you. Fool me â�� you can't get fooled again"? Something like that... Except it's the people actually voting to have their pockets picked in yet another giant transfer of wealth upwards who are the ones with the learning problem.

Do Texans know that saying about whacking someone upside the head to get their attention? Well, they've had a bunch of whacks, which just show the other big problem of learning by experience: Understanding what the lesson is.

ITM, We the People will be shelling out to do for Texans via federal programs what they are apparently not willing to do for themselves. State's rights indeed!

Texas Poverty - RC

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Texas, the land of the great divide. The wealthy - sm

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Texans send their children to private school so there is no need in their minds to fund public education. Better the poor remain ignorant. They are controlled more easily that way.

That's classic Obama-speak - sm

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"Better the poor remain ignorant. They are controlled more easily that way."

What would your explanation be for a state that ranks - 49th in rate of HS graduation and.. sm

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a majority of those graduates who attend college are not prepared? Meanwhile, more and more money is taken from education.

yeah. right. - nm

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Thanks for this comprehensive information. Will add to the - 30-round magazine ammo

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I keep ready and waiting whenever my fellow Texans get up here trying to brag about how proud they are of our governor's transparent fiscal deficits.

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