Wannabe Secessionist Rick Perry Balances Texas Budget With Federal Stimulus Cash

[TeyshaBlue]

Which ones claimed to be for it?

Some. Next.

[ChumpDumper]

Me. Next.

Are you in the legislature?

[TeyshaBlue]

Are you in the legislature?

Nope. You didn't specify legislators. I believe you just specified Republicans. Next.

[ChumpDumper]

Nope.

Next.

[Ignignokt]

Next.

can the legislature reject the stimulus?

[ChumpDumper]

can the legislature reject the stimulus?

Yes.

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Wannabe Secessionist Rick Perry Balances Texas Budget With Federal Stimulus Cash

Posted By barbaramorrill On May 26, 2010 @ 4:46 pm


Rick Perry, the wannabe secessionist and Governor of Texas, must be doubly grateful that his state legislature ignored his empty talk about turning down money from the economic recovery package because:

… the Wall Street Journal noted this morning, the stimulus is the reason that Texas currently has a balanced budget:

[T]he economic downturn is catching up with Texas. Sales-tax revenue started falling in February 2009 compared with the previous year, and only started to recover a bit in April of this year. Although Mr. Perry has railed against the federal economic-stimulus program, billions of dollars from that initiative helped Texas legislators balance the current budget.

… which gave Perry more time to double his state’s debt and to write a book:

… that will blast Washington for overreaching and intruding on the rights of states and individuals.

led Fed Up, it is described by publisher Little, Brown and Co. as a polemic that casts federal policies as a “legitimate threat to America’s continued leadership in the free world.”

Considering that Texas received a nearly $23 billion intrusion, perhaps Mr. Perry should change the le to “Fed.”

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As always, Repugs and conservatives hate govt unless taxpayer $$ are flowing into the their pockets.

And there's the rub. As it is with a lot states, the feds take so much of the tax dollar, there isn't enough to run the states.

[Nbadan]

I don't know what the 'right amount' of taxes is.....but we pay one of the lowest tax rates in the free world....especially corporations and the very wealthy....

[boutons_deux]

If Repugs/Perry hate taxes so much, why don't they annul the TX state sales tax?

Maybe they need the revenue more than they hate taxes?

[EVAY]

I don't know what the 'right amount' of taxes is.....but we pay one of the lowest tax rates in the free world....especially corporations and the very wealthy....

I'd have to say that the 'right' amount of taxes is the amount is takes to paythe bills for the goods and services that the taxpayers demand.

And, you are right that the U.S. personal tax rate is one of the lowest in the industrialized world.

[Nbadan]

I'd have to say that the 'right' amount of taxes is the amount is takes to pay the bills for the goods and services that the taxpayers demand.

That's just it....many 'demand services' but don't want to pay for them..

[ChumpDumper]

I don't know what the 'right amount' of taxes is.

Enough to put a Formula One track next to a toll road.

[Blake]

Enough to put a Formula One track next to a toll road.

I'm glad to hear that taxpayers won't be footing the bill to build the F1 track.