Gov. Rick Perry's Symbolic Cuts and His Real Ones
If you’re going to make a bunch of people mad, you should make sure you’re getting something for it.
Gov. Rick Perry, in his State of the State address on Tuesday, proposed cutting off financing for the state’s Historical Commission and the Commission on the Arts. He has other small agencies in his sights, too, including the advocate for residential and small business utility customers and the state’s Department of Rural Affairs.
But the Arts and Historical panels are a different kind of cat, a pet concern of well-to-do Texans, among others, including more than a ...
Comments (8)
Gregory S Windham via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Hit the nail on the head with this one.
Erica Altes Cole via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Bill White warned us that this was going to happen.Hey Governor,where are the jobs?
Mac Mcclure via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Ross Ramsey, I know you are troubled by the cuts to the arts and historical commission. Do we have to read about it everyday? The state has a budget problem. Your next article should be where you would like to see cuts made to help balance the budget. Get proactive instead of whining.
Charlene Cheek via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I have some serious concerns about the overall IQ of the Texans who voted Perry into office. It's bewildering to understand why he's still there.
Erika Holzinger via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Charlene texans are to slow to realize that perry will screw the state of texas like arnold schwarezennger did to california.And it will only get worse in texas.Texas is following the path of California
Cristal Robinson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
We need the papers to educate the people that the business tax was nothing last year and is exempt for the first 5million. Under Bush is exempt for the first $150k. They will raise taxes (require fees to receive child support), but they will not raise fees on businesses. That is wrong.
Brandon Alderete
Facts have a notorious liberal bias.
annie03
The logical consequence of the republican financial scheme will be that we end up with an economy like Mexico's: The affluent pay for private services, the middle class all but disappear, and the overwhelming majority of people become politically and economically disenfranchised.