{"id":19367,"date":"2013-06-22T06:20:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T10:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19367"},"modified":"2013-06-22T06:20:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T10:20:28","slug":"rick-perry-comes-to-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19367","title":{"rendered":"Rick Perry Comes To New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas<\/a> Governor Rick Perry<\/a> has been making the rounds lately–visiting states with high taxes that might cause businesses to take a look at Texas. Fred Barnes<\/a> posted an article at the Weekly Standard<\/a> about Governor Perry’s recent visit to Manhattan.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

After his freshman year at Texas A&M in 1969, Perry sold Bible-related books one summer in rural Missouri. \u201cIt took weeks before I sold my first books,\u201d he says, but he learned salesmanship. \u201cI look at myself just like a businessman trying to sell a product,\u201d he says. Perry told Trump he\u2019s selling the \u201copportunity\u201d for business owners<\/a> to flee the \u201chigh tax, high regulation, high litigation\u201d environment of states like New York<\/a> and thrive in a free market state that lets them keep more of the money they earn. Texas has no state income tax.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Perry is never bashful. When touting Texas as a safe haven for American business, he\u2019s doing what no governor has done before. And he\u2019s doing it with as much fanfare and buzz as possible. Some governors send letters, urging companies to pick up stakes and move. When Perry spent a day in Connecticut last week, he bumped into Dennis Daugaard<\/a>, the Republican governor of South Dakota<\/a>. Both were on economic missions. The Connecticut media latched on to Perry and ignored Daugaard.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is an example of how the United States<\/a> is supposed to work. The states were set up to be independent laboratories for policies–then Congress would enact the programs that worked in the successful states and not enact the programs in the states with economic or social problems that were not being solved. Unfortunately, Congress has often chosen to do the opposite.<\/p>\n

The advertising campaign in New York was noteworthy:<\/p>\n

The killer line: \u201cIf you\u2019re tired of the same old recipe of over-taxation, over-regulation, and frivolous litigation, get out before you go broke.\u201d Perry delivered the closer. \u201cTexas is calling,\u201d he said. \u201cYour opportunity awaits.\u201d The ads made a splash.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Governor Perry’s trips and advertising campaign are paid for by a group called Texas\u00a0One, a foundation that touts the state\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n

The article reports the goals of Governor Perry’s trip to New York:<\/p>\n

Perry had three goals for his trip. He succeeded, partially anyway, on two. In time, he may on the third. The first was to attract businesses to Texas. Perry insists it takes nine months from his pitch to a company\u2019s decision to move. So we\u2019ll have to wait on that. But Perry says he expects to hear this summer that an untold number of California companies are Texas-bound.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The second goal was to stir a national debate on \u201cblue state versus red states<\/a> policies.\u201d Perry thinks he\u2019s set this in motion and he may have. It should shine a favorable light on the Texas model of low taxes, light regulation, and less litigation\u2014small government that works.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Perry didn\u2019t acknowledge the third goal. It was a test of his skill as a potential presidential candidate after his disastrous performance in last year\u2019s race for the Republican nomination. He says he \u201cparachuted\u201d into that campaign both too late and unprepared. He knows better now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I guess the primary season for the 2016 Presidential election has begun.<\/p>\n

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