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Are we?
I didn't even know Texas had toll roads yet. I thought they were coming, not that they were already installed. Tolls = scam.
Are we?
Tbh we should scale back on educational funding and be more like Mexico.
how bout to the levels of japan?
mexico has better math literacy btw
even to the level of germany... how bout that?
eg, $90K total for, K to 12, 13 years.
US is certainly not getting value for the money, looking at US's various way-down-from-2nd-place in international testing:
http://4brevard.com/choice/internati...est-scores.htm
some discussion, spinning:
http://www.ncwit.org/resources.res.talking.mathsci.html
Perry on Bernanke: ‘I dunno what y’all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas’
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/20...down-in-texas/
Yippie ky yo! Give 'em that ol' "down in Texas" home-spun bull .
HTF would Jimmy Ricky or any Texan "treat him pretty ugly".
Macho tough talkin bluster, with no fear of his bluff ever being called.
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Perry Admits Higher Taxes On Millionaires And Billionaires ‘Isn’t Going To Affect Anything’
PERRY: I just think that new taxes are not the answer right now. If I had — I don’t know what he’s worth — $80 billion or $30 billion or whatever it is, he’s never going to spend all his money so taking money away from Warren Buffett isn’t going to affect anything. But, it’s the $250,000 folks who they’re trying to tax who’s the small businessman that’s getting devastated in this.
Perry, however, is indisputably wrong to claim small businesses will be “devastated” by such a tax increase on the wealthy. As the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities notes, fewer than 2 percent of small businesses claim an income in the top two income brackets (roughly making more than $250,000 annually). Indeed, a “substantial percentage” of small businesses are actually in the lowest tax brackets. 34 percent are in the bracket that are not subject to income taxes at all because their incomes are too low. And as TP Economy editor Pat Garofalo notes, if a small business owner is actually taking home $1 million per year in income, the individual “ought to be taxed like anybody else making that much.”
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/201...fect-anything/
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As in the "10 Reasons Perry Won't Be Elected" that I posted, one reason was that he seems, actually is, dumb.
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Taxing the super rich would work, if there were enough of them.
Obviously reducing their taxes on capital gains and expecting it to trickle-down didn't 'affect anything' either. Time to bring those taxes back up and we'll see if it makes a difference or not. I expect them to fight tooth and nail to keep those rates where they are.
It's not going to 'fix it all', but it'll help.
http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2011...-apology-tour/The Start of Perry’s Apology Tour
Posted on August 15th, 2011 by Daniel Larison
Rick Perry begins his apology tour (via Igor Volsky):
A few hours after unveiling his campaign for president, Perry began walking back from one of the most controversial decisions of his more-than-10-year reign as Texas governor. Speaking to voters at a backyard party in New Hampshire, Perry said he was ill-informed when he issued his executive order, in February 2007, mandating the HPV vaccine for all girls entering sixth grade, unless their parents completed a conscientious-objection affidavit form.As Volsky shows, Perry claimed on multiple occasions that he believed that the order was the right thing over the last four years. Suddenly, the decision he has defended all this time has become an “ill-informed” one. In fact, as Reihan notes in his discussion of Perry’s record here, Perry’s original decision was an ill-informed one:
Mann doesn’t even mention the fact that many public health advocates considered Perry’s decision to mandate Gardasil unwise, as the vaccine had only recently been deemed safe enough for widespread use.That suggests that Perry’s original paternalistic decision, which he regularly defended for years, was a blunder, but it has only been because of the new scrutiny he faces as a presidential candidate that he was willing to admit as much publicly.
A more serious policy blunder, and one that has had significant consequences for Texas’ budget, is the misguided “business-margins tax,” which taxes the gross income of businesses rather than taxing just profits as the old franchise tax did. Reihan quotes from an article in The Texas Observer:
The idea was to cut property taxes and replace the lost revenue with a new business tax.The National Federation of Independent Businesses denounced the tax as a failure earlier this year:
This 2006 tax “swap” was the one instance during Perry’s decade as governor when he proposed a wide-ranging plan and successfully pushed it through the Legislature mostly unchanged. It’s perhaps his signature legislative accomplishment.
Problem is, it’s been a disaster. Small businesses don’t like it. Some conservatives hate it—in fact, a few believe Perry’s business tax is uncons utional. Worst of all, the tax doesn’t generate enough revenue. The tax swap has cost the state $5 billion a year for five years running. The Texas budget now faces an ongoing structural deficit because of the underperforming business tax.
“We look at the tax as an abject failure,” said Hoke, “because it’s crippling the small and mid-sized businesses without bringing in what (the legislators) thought. It’s a lose-lose scenario.”How much of a difference has the change in tax law made to small businesses? According to the NFIB communications director, quite a lot:
And although some have had increases of only $200 or so, “Most companies have seen a 100-500 percent increase,” she reported.Yes, Perry certainly sounds like the natural candidate to address mounting federal debt and tax reform.
Update: Peter Suderman explains how Perry has been papering over the structural deficit his failed tax law has created. Last year, he used $6 billion in stimulus funding to make up almost the entire deficit, and he has resorted to Pawlenty-esque budget gimmicks in other years:
According to a report by ABC News, Perry’s budget also closed a big part of its budget gap by delaying a $2.3 billion education payment a single day. Thanks to that one-day delay, the payment will fall into the next budget year, and therefore will not technically affect the current year’s budget.
Who Owns Jimmy Ricky?
Rick Perry Is Big Oil's $11 Million Man
Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX), even before establishing super PACs to rake in unlimited contributions from Texas billionaires in his presidential run, has been one of the best funded politicians in history. Since his 1998 candidacy to be George W. Bush’s lieutenant governor, Perry has raked in$117,091,642 in campaign contributions, with the oil and gas industry the top contributor. Big oil has fueled Rick Perry’s career, the top industry contributor at $11,189,103, according to the National Ins ute on Money in State Politics:
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews...an/#paragraph2
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I always wondered why Jimmy Ricky (actually, all Repugs) hates the EPA
These kinds of charts will be useless from here on, as Citizens United encourages corruptors/pay-to-play-ers/contributors, their amounts to remain completely secret.
Thanks, Conservabot, we almost went an entire hour without one of those.
We have a few toll roads, and the construction of the north-south parallel to I-35 continues apace.
Not quite nearly the vast network envisioned/proposed to my understanding.
Paul Krugman is wrong about Texas
http://www.nationalreview.com/excheq...ng-about-texas
See, this is your wheelhouse. Well, that, and bumping your own ancient threads.
So private school principals make, on average, about 80% more than public school principals?
That means the upper bounds are well above that.
It would seem the outrage over public school principals is somewhat, well, stupid/ignorant.
I have a few threads subscribed, as it is fun to revisit the predictions of doom/gloom a few years on.
The only one I really bump on purpose is the one where you shamed yourself repeatedly by demonstrating a complete inability to form a logical, intellectually honest argument. I can see why you might resent that, but the solution is obvious: quit being a dishonest hack.
Who does one believe? Opinions of some unknown ugly-mug-shot hitman blogger from NationalReview or Krugman?
We know who Darrin believes.
Mug shot would be a little bit credible if he had any numbers from official sources about those millions of jobs Jimmy Ricky has created and what exactly were his job-creation policies.
Who does one believe? Opinions of some unknown ugly-mug-shot hitman blogger from NationalReview or Krugman?
We know who Darrin believes.
Mug shot would be a little bit credible if he had any numbers from official sources about those millions of jobs Jimmy Ricky has created and what exactly were his job-creation policies.
boutons believe millions of people immigrate here for the Walmart jobs.
The attacks on Texas' economy are SOOOOO transparent, too.
I thought you guys were smarter than this.
God please hear my and Perry's prayers..PLEASE let Perry win the nomination...
Depends what you're talking about. The concept for the big network of new state wide tollways known as the Trans Texas Corridor is dead, but on a local basis, tolls are already in place on facilities in Dallas, Houston and Austin. Tolls in San Antonio are only a matter of time.
I get that tolls are unpopular, but respectfully disagree that tolls are a scam. Roads cost money. In Texas, 1/4 of our gas tax revenue is diverted to education by cons utional amendment. The remaining tax money basically covers maintenance of the existing facilities. There's little to no money for projects to add capacity. Since Texas insists on not raising the gas tax, added capacity projects need a source of revenue to fund them. That means tolls.
Fundamentally, tolls aren't any more of a scam than taxes are.
The Mexicans immigrate here for the i-banking jobs.
I like how he cherry picks a paragraph of Krugman's entire opinion and proceeds to tries to build an alternate explanation from it, which only takes about 3 posts on the comments section to get destroyed.
Luckily, Kevin Williamson on NR isn't much different than DarrinS on Spurstalk.
Thanks for posting. I had a good laugh.
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