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Texas Job Engine Back-fires

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Layoffs acomin, there be dancin tonight.

Taxes kill jobs. Even though they may build roads, restart banks, investment firms and sustain non-resident farmers in their Country Clubs across America, well they also K I L L J O B S. Don’t they?

In texas, taxes are low. The common claim is that they are zero. Can’t get much lower, yet apparently most companies aren’t rational, since most corporations are not headquartered in Big T, no T.

Of course Gov Perry won’t be bragging about the loss of jobs in Irving. Not of much significance that Amazon has WARN noticed its intent to close its Texas facility April 13, 2011 because of a dispute over, hell, can this be correct “TAXES?” 119 employees (aka: tax payer; rarely known as citizen) are being fired and Amazon’s fulfillment center is closing. You see, Texas does tax. They just don’t call most of them taxes. This is one of the zits on the Texas Bull.

So why is Amazon leaving Texas? They are being asked to collect sales tax on mail order items since they have a processing facility in Texas. Sales tax is a tax, but not on capital. Sales tax is a small tax on the consumer, not the producer. It isn’t a tax on money. That is why it falls into the consertaive-govertment-takes-my-money so I-need-a-gun mind mold. Amazon is leaving because this tax is on their customer, and frankly, Amazon can do the job of fulfillment better from a different state.

Ground Hog, Again

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The Texas miracle: They can’t clear ice yet they can’t see clearly enough why.

The ice will melt when God wants it to….
God brought it. God will take.

Dallas is crippled by a storm that wouldn’t cause Seneca Falls to stall. A town with millions of dollars more yet so few ideas it can not get ice off the roadways. I wonder, how is the Super Bowl revenue? Wonder what those out of towners are thinking as they endure iced sidewalks, along with rolling blackouts.

In California a Texas company, Enron, caused an energy crisis and rolling blackouts. In Texas, it is the Texas econocaste along with their Koch Sucker philosophy that rationalizes rolling black outs. A state that says it could succeed if only it could secede, since it is the energy capital of America, can’t even distribute energy. The state with such high hopes, such high salt levels in its food, can’t even get salt on the roadways.

If they do it again, and again, until their delusion ends, they won’t get it correct, since they’ve already gotten it Right.

The Texas Ground Hog

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Today, light snow, ice, windy in Dallas.

A trail of a storm came into North Texas to tap the concrete shoulders of big D. Dallas, meanwhile has been hosting the Super Bowl party. The D’s citizens have been encouraged to show the visitors that “Texas isn’t just pickups and guns”. It isn’t even snowplows or plans. It is government paid for a nickel at a time on those iced over thruways.

Of course Texas runs a lean efficient government, all properly managed by vigilant Conservative Coalitions. These Captains of Commerce even provide downtown security, so that citizens are better protected. They fail to see the yearly snow as anything to prepare for. Their plan is simple, I just don’t see it.

Texas, where a quarter inch snowfall halts all commerce in Dallas, Bush’s dream come true.

Start shoveling America, this is your Erewhon, Right Here, Right Now, Stuck in the Middle of Nowhere by a quarter inch of snow.