{"id":2656,"date":"2010-10-18T12:19:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T17:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2010-10-18T12:19:03","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T17:19:03","slug":"its-good-to-be-the-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=2656","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Good to Be the King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/249868\/texas-model-rich-lowry\">The king of creating jobs, that is.<\/a> &#8220;More than half of the net new jobs in the U.S. during the past 12 months were created in the Lone Star State.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Funny what happens when you have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No state income tax\n<li>Right to work laws\n<li>No out-of-control public employee unions\n<li>Conservative Republicans in charges of the Governor&#8217;s mansion, the House, and the Senate\n<li>Which have actually constrained the growth of government during boom times\n<li>A requirement by law to balance the budget\n<li>Regulations that encourage private enterprise rather than punish it\n<li>A healthy disdain for Political Correctness\n<li>A thriving high tech sector\n<li>Warm weather\n<li>Natural ports\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some might think the last three are the most important factors, but California has all those as well, and their economy is biting the moose hard. <\/p>\n<p>For a more detailed breakdown of of why Texas is kicking California&#8217;s ass (and not just <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/vault\/article\/magazine\/MAG1115220\/index.htm\">at football<\/a>), read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texaspolicy.com\/pdf\/2010-10-CompetitiveStatesTXvsCA.pdf\">this Arduin, Laffer &#038; Moore report put out by the Texas Public Policy Foundation<\/a>. Notice, for example, that Texas has lower taxes in every single category except sale tax (where the two are close to even)&#8230;and California is still broke! You can&#8217;t tax your way to prosperity. <\/p>\n<p>Liberal policies don&#8217;t fail because of bad luck, or because of some sinister conservative conspiracy to make them fail. Liberal policies fail because the liberal ideas behind them are <i>wrong<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>Reality, it seems, has a free market bias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The king of creating jobs, that is. &#8220;More than half of the net new jobs in the U.S. during the past 12 months were created in the Lone Star State.&#8221; Funny what happens when you have: No state income tax Right to work laws No out-of-control public employee unions Conservative Republicans in charges of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":28,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,18,12],"tags":[406,2863,40,605,2865,2861,2877],"class_list":["post-2656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-economics","category-republicans","category-texas","tag-california","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-jobs","tag-republicans","tag-texas","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2669,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions\/2669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}