{"id":9697,"date":"2015-06-11T16:03:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T16:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9697"},"modified":"2015-06-11T16:03:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T16:03:57","slug":"abbott-texass-newest-job-poacher-in-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9697","title":{"rendered":"Abbott: Texas’s newest job poacher in chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been called the state’s latest “job poacher in chief,” picking up where former Gov. Rick Perry left off.<\/p>\n

I beg to differ on one specific point. It’s a matter of style.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2015\/06\/11\/brief-june-11-2015\/<\/p>\n

Perry made waves when he boarded airplanes and flew to states — such as California — to make a big show of luring companies away from those states and relocating in Texas. He grandstanded and pranced, donning hard hats and talking to the media about how Texas is a better place to do business than those states governed by those dreaded Democrats.<\/p>\n

I took him to task for the manner in which he sought to “poach” those jobs.<\/p>\n

Greg Abbott, though, is doing it differently. He’s more low-key about it.<\/p>\n

He recently sent a letter to the head of General Electric, based in Connecticut. He told the CEO that Texas’s tax environment is much friendlier than Connecticut’s. The Texas Legislature just approved a legislation aimed at giving tax breaks to companies; meanwhile, Connecticut keeps heaping greater tax liability on business owners.<\/p>\n

The Abbott approach is far less in-your-face than the Perry approach.<\/p>\n

I don’t begrudge any state governor who seeks to boost his or her state’s business community by luring big-ticket firms from other locations.<\/p>\n

The optics<\/em> of such a mission, though, do matter.<\/p>\n

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