Reply To: The truth about Rick Perry

“1. Texas has a higer unemployement rate than NY. True, but did you compare job creation in the two states? Did you know that Texas is number 3 in the nation for population growth while NY is number 45??!! That means Texas created way more jobs than almost any state in the nation. To be fair, the Dems are agreeing with me, but say Perry had NOTHING to do with it. Its all oil or military related jobs. Come on!!”

Texas has created a lot of jobs, but it has also lost a lot of jobs. Hence the still high unemployment rate.

“2. Texas has highest property tax in the nation.- While you did manage to find a report that said something like this, I’ll be dan lkaf zchus that you were grossly misinformed. That report is only tax percentage of home value, not the dollar amount. NY and NJ have the highest dollar amount taxes in the country.

Also, did you know that texas has zero, yes, zero (0) income tax? The total tax burden in TX is much lower than NY. Also, once we are quoting from the taxfoundation webiste, have you seen the 2009 State Business Tax Climate Index which ranks NY as the absoute worst business tax climate state in the nation? Oh, and Texas is the 7th best in the nation.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/files/bp58.pdf

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If the business climate is so much better than New York, how come it has higher unemployment? Clearly, there is something more to creating jobs than being friendly to business.

‘3. TX has increased spending. Charlie, did you bother to read the next line in the article?? “… Texas, is also on track to spend significantly more in 2012 than in 2008, but the two-year budget Texas just enacted calls for very deep cuts in 2013 that would bring spending below 2008 levels.” They are making very deep cuts in spending.’

Yes. They will add to umemployment, harm Texas’ already troubled education system, and drive even more Texans to Mexico for health care, not to mention adding to unemployment. These are no times to be either cutting spending or raising taxes (which have the same macroeconomic effect).

‘4. Big supporter of corporate welfare. So he gave a few million dollar grant, and 30 million low interest loan back in 2004, big deal. Should i compare it to the billions Obama gave to bailout companies? Or to the hundred or more large companies that were given waivers from ObamaCare? Can you please explain that?’

I think it is a big deal to give government money to an anti-Semitic anti-Israel anti-American dictator. Don’t you? If Obama had given Chavez $35 million the Republicans would be all over him.

And they’d be over him had he NOT granted the waivers. The point of the Affordable Care Act was not to cause people to lose health insurance, but to cover more people. Which it has. It has also reduced the cost for millions on Medicare. Had the Affordable Care Act been permitted to take effect in a reasonable amount of time, the waivers would not be needed, but not one single Republican was willing to vote to end a filibuster to allow these problems to be corrected.

“5. Perry’s comment on Bernanke. I agree with you that he was out of line, and should not have said that. But need I compare that to Janet Napolitano or the VP of the USA, Joe Biden calling the Tea Party terrorists??”

No comparison. Neither Napolitano nor Biden accused the Tea Party of treason or threatened their safety. Anyone who threatens a public official with physical harm is unfit for public service.