In Pitching Tax Relief, Perry Again Targets Washington
Gov. Rick Perry again turned to bashing the federal government Thursday during the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s policy orientation conference, calling out national leaders for their “irresponsible” spending decisions, while making his own sales pitch for a tax relief plan.
Speaking to an audience of around 200 attendees that included legislators and staffers, Perry touted the contrast between national leaders and Texas. While bragging about Texas' fiscal health, he said Washington, D.C., "is creating more pressures economically on this country, whether it’s by forcing their health care law into the states ... whether it’s their refusal to ...
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Allen Michie via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Restore the school funding that was cut last session first.
Glenda Hawthorne via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Amen, Allen. Just wishing Perry would go away.
cb waldrep
His plan for tax relief does nothing for the average Texan but would benefit his contributors.Suprise,suprise.
Renee E. Babcock via Texas Tribune on Facebook
"fiscal constraint" = defunding anything that helps the most vulnerable in our state, defunding education, defunding health care, defunding everything except his own budget.
Ruth Hill Pieper via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Big deal. He makes a big show out of spending cuts, and leaves all important funding to the local school, county and cities. They have to raise taxes to make up for his grandstanding. Does he really think people don't see that?
Scott Nicol via Texas Tribune on Facebook
he's running the state like a family budget, assuming the head of the household quits working and instead pays his bills with magic beans
A Lerma Stickelbault via Texas Tribune on Facebook
this guy is so simplistic....actually idiotic
Kristina Michel via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry needs to report his boastful comments about fiscal restraint to his buddies in the state congress, who just voted to use the surplus money to increase their own office budgets. Heaven forbid our schools, infrastructure and health programs benefit from the surplus considering they had to scrape their budgets to the bare minimum just so we could afford it.
Not to mention the very reason they had to do so was because of a $27 billion budget shortfall for which these same clowns who just voted to raise their own office budgets were responsible for creating in the first place.
Arthur M. Thomas IV via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Has he not been paying attention to the last decade? The Texas budget has doubled under him.
And education and health services make up most of the state budget. It would be absurd not to look at them for cuts.
Chuck Bloom via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I'm sure all those starving for funding Texas school districts are just SOOO proud of GOv. Perry's "restraint." From now on, he is Gov. Oops!
Sparkling Sunshine via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I wish I could say he was not relevant any longer. He scares me. He is running this State in ground with his "fiscal restraint." He sure isn't stopping himself from double dipping into the pension fund and taking a salary. Crooked is the word that keeps popping up in my head.
Karen Browder via Texas Tribune on Facebook
we would not have a surplus without the fed govt , rick is a joke
Jim Hsu via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I feel sorry for TX Trib staffers who have to type up these Rick Perry crock of $&!t quotes everyday. And pretend it's not a crock of $&!t.
hans5162@ix.netcom.com hans
The Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas boom has more to do with the state's economy than anything the idiot governor does. I've heard this before. We think we're smarter and we have it all figured out. I remember all the foreclosures in Houston the last time the energy merry-go-round stopped. When it does again, the emperor will be seen to have no clothes and we'll all be living in a state with crumbling highways, underfunded schools and no water. It doesn't have to be that way, but Perry thinks tax cuts are all you have to do to run a government. It's a complete lunatic fantasy.
Cynthia Casper Robertson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry's an ass. He's not only an embarrassment to Texas but America as well.
Robert Ruiz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
goofy dude. i dislike him for three reasons...now let's first because he is irrational, second he's pulled the lever killing more the 240 people since taking office and third.... eh ooops?????
Rudy Gonzales
Texas' governor Rick Perry is hard at work making waves about returning taxes to Texans and tax relief, but does not want the money to improve the lots of the Midicaid needy. Perry is trying to position himself and fertilize his future possible run for the president. He didn't remember how bad he looked when this "Streaking Texas Turky" flamed out, crashed and burned in "Oopsville" on the national stage. He is just like the other TEA-Republicans, John Cornyn, Texas' Senator, said, 'It May be Necessary to Partially Shut Down the Government in Order to Secure the Long-Term Fiscal Well Being of Our Country' - This is the mentality of cowing down to back-tracking TEA-types, by once proud Lincoln and Reaganites. Should the country be brought to it knees for any reason by the combative and confrontational TEA-type backing Senators and Representatives, make sure to vote them out of office next cycle. Cornyn, McConnell, Boehner, Cantor and the other TEA-types do not want to admit we got here because two wars were started and not paid for or funded. Conservatives were in charge and shoved through tax incentives for the super-rich without justification. These guys want to slash Social Programs and Entitlements, which in fact could be fully funded equitable and evenly across the board by eliminating exceptions, exemptions and other limitation styled items in the tax code. Every line above the Adjusted Gross Income line on IRS form 1040 has these exceptions, exemptions and other limitations and taxed at lower rates for the super-rich to get richer at the expense of the middle class. This points to drastic changes to the tax code in favor of the middle class as the top 2% have already had their cake. Do not sit on the sidelines and allow others to make decisions that will effect you directly without your input. And the 2014 Mid-term election is a-coming!
Joel Vela via Texas Tribune on Facebook
x2, Perry is an ass!!
Carolyn Mata via Texas Tribune on Facebook
you can have him
Glenda Turck via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Perry is getting as rigid as fossilized wood and has always been just as dense.
Jim Arnold
All he is doing is running for POTUS in '16.
Jim Baxa
Eliminating the margins tax is the first step. Eliminating this will help the average Joe by increasing wages and decreasing prices in Texas, as well as increasing jobs.
Bill Asher
The finger he's pointing is the same one he uses to read and pick uh is nose.