{"id":504,"date":"2013-03-12T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/12\/texas-is-selling-itself"},"modified":"2013-03-12T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T13:19:00","slug":"texas-is-selling-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Texas is selling itself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>California businessmen and women are coming to Texas to set up shop, apparently knowing all along that the Lone Star State is among the more business-friendly states in the Union.<\/p>\n<p>And that is why Texas Gov. Rick Perry\u2019s recent foray into California to recruit openly for business owners to relocate to Texas seems so gratuitous and, frankly, rather foolish.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/03\/11\/polling-center-californias-conservative-migration\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/03\/11\/polling-center-californias-conservative-migration\/\">http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2013\/03\/11\/polling-center-californias-conservative-migration\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perry made the showy trip to California, where he chided that state over its difficult economic circumstance. California Gov. Jerry Brown called Perry\u2019s visit \u201cbarely a fart.\u201d Perry laughed off the snarky rejoinder.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence, though, is quite clear that Texas is a good place to do business. We have no personal income tax. Our regulatory hurdles are less cumbersome than many other states. <\/p>\n<p>Are we the perfect place to relocate? Hardly. Look at the school financing picture. The courts keep ruling our property tax-heavy public school funding system as being unconstitutional, and the Legislature hasn\u2019t helped matters by cutting so deeply into public education funds to help balance the state budget. That\u2019s hardly a magnet to attract young families with children to educate. <\/p>\n<p>But as the Texas Tribune reports, Texas\u2019s relatively good economic health has helped it attract new residents at a blistering pace, while other states have seen their population stagnate.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me wonder aloud once again: Why did Perry feel the need to prance and preen so publicly when the state is selling itself?<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California businessmen and women are coming to Texas to set up shop, apparently knowing all along that the Lone Star State is among the more business-friendly states in the Union. And that is why Texas Gov. Rick Perry\u2019s recent foray into California to recruit openly for business owners to relocate to Texas seems so gratuitous &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=504\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texas is selling itself<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}