Please don’t secede, Texas — we need you
The Lone Star state boasts all-star status when it comes to job creation and economic growth. Writing for City Journal, Wendell Cox brings us a great in-depth look at one of the healthiest state economies in the U.S. Texas job creation is well above the national average, with the number of jobs having grown 31.5 percent since 1995. Even more impressive, many of the new jobs were high-paying, coming from professional and technical fields. Cox explains why:
“A pro-business climate has unquestionably been a substantial advantage. In its annual ranking of business environments, Chief Executive has named Texas the most growth-friendly state for eight years in a row. (California has been last for the same eight years.) The reasons included low taxes and sensible regulations; a high-quality workforce (Texas ranked second only to Utah in that category in 2012); and a pleasant living environment….”
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Replace Texas with “conservatives” and you’ve got the left’s worst nightmare come to life. THAT is why they throw such a temper tantrum about “white flight”, etc. Not because they give a crap about their constituents after they dutifully vote for them, but because without us they have no tax base to rob.
MelonCollie on February 12, 2013 at 11:49 AM
It is awfully tempting.
CorporatePiggy on February 12, 2013 at 11:56 AM
I don’t think most Texans want it to come to that. But we’re also not gonna go down with the ship if/when insolvency arrives.
Doughboy on February 12, 2013 at 11:59 AM
I’d say that would be the wisest course of action, unless Obama springs something that is truly intolerable before then.
MelonCollie on February 12, 2013 at 12:00 PM
Texas won’t leave America America will leave Texas.
I’ll go wherever freedom exists, and that is less and less here.
harlekwin15 on February 12, 2013 at 12:09 PM
Thank goodness we have a great AG, Abbott to help us out with the epa! Other states have great AG’s also, I should add.
We just need to keep the libs to a great minority in Austin though!
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letget on February 12, 2013 at 12:10 PM
Pretty much dead on. A hilarious development would be the Red States petitioning Mexopolis for annexation to get away from EPA and Ogabecare.
harlekwin15 on February 12, 2013 at 12:11 PM
In my way of thinking, “truly intolerable” has already been met.
itsacookbook on February 12, 2013 at 12:11 PM
how about please take us with you.
bannor on February 12, 2013 at 12:13 PM
I understand completely.
Just remember that any state(s) that split off before national disorder starts truly hitting will cross a Rubicon of great magnitude. The dragon is sick…but he is not yet blind.
MelonCollie on February 12, 2013 at 12:18 PM
Smartest to wait for disorder and take the ‘Ghandi’ route out of town.
trigon on February 12, 2013 at 12:21 PM
Would not be much of a stretch, San Antonio is already the northern Capitol of Mexico. Aside from firearm prohibition and the ‘War on Drugs’ induced criminal activity, Mexico is not a bad place and Mexicans have a fair amount of freedom. The government is definitely an elitist oligarchy so you would not be escaping that. I think an Independent Republic of Texas would be a better option if all h3ll breaks loose.
brtex on February 12, 2013 at 12:21 PM
ROTFLOL.
MelonCollie on February 12, 2013 at 12:23 PM
The longer Texas takes to secede the larger its share of the national debt will be. If it waits til the USA as a whole is in total financial meltdown it will be extremely hard pay it off.
astonerii on February 12, 2013 at 12:24 PM
The longer Texas takes to leave the larger its share of the national debt will be. If it waits til the USA as a whole is in total financial meltdown it will be extremely hard pay it off.
funny I cannot sue the same word hot air uses in the headline…
astonerii on February 12, 2013 at 12:25 PM
Texas won’t be first in line. She’ll give a ear to who is though. I suspect Oklahoma or Utah will be the sacrificial goat. I pray the idjits in charge of the country wake the hell up first.
Limerick on February 12, 2013 at 12:29 PM
Be nice to have a nice strong group that totally separates east and west coasts.
astonerii on February 12, 2013 at 12:32 PM
The parasite protests a healthy host trying to get away.
Bulletchaser on February 12, 2013 at 12:33 PM
Dick Turban and Chuck U Schumer to pass the “Leaving the Union” penalty tax in 5, 4, 3, 2…
Because damnit, its unpatriotic not to support financial armageddon directed by DC!
CorporatePiggy on February 12, 2013 at 12:33 PM
Sadly, Texas is part of Aztlan, so while it may leave the USA, demographics show it being a new province of Mexico with a few gringos walking around making trouble. That will end as soon as “Land Reform” is initiated and the gringos are kicked out.
Viva La Revolution!
Bulletchaser on February 12, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Sorry stoner. Once a Texas seces***n is enacted the “Texas share” of old America’s debt is zip, zero, nada.
eyesky on February 12, 2013 at 12:39 PM
Exactly, I’ve been saying for a long time now that conservatives don’t need Liberals but they sure as heck need us.
I want to see a return to a more muscular federalism. That would only accelerate the decline of Blue states.
I’d like to make Red states enemy territory for the Leftists so they don’t move into our states. I’d even like to force Liberals to move out of Red states.
Charlemagne on February 12, 2013 at 12:40 PM
Indeed. Imagine the Midwest states denying all traffic between said coasts.
MelonCollie on February 12, 2013 at 12:40 PM
We make the choppers, the nukes, the spy sats, the EW gear, night vision, and fighter jets. You can’t remove the know-how. It seems bringing business to Texas is more than about revenue.
Funny. Even the Aztlans get Texas in their blood. Oh we have our problems, for sure, but lack of Texans isn’t one of them.
Limerick on February 12, 2013 at 12:42 PM
LOL only if it is willing to fight a war to do it. Texas is allowed to leave based on how it entered the union and can do so without a war, but if it wants to leave without its share of the debt, it will do so only through war. You seriously think it will go down some other way?
astonerii on February 12, 2013 at 12:43 PM
Texas isn’t a color, it is an attitude.
Limerick on February 12, 2013 at 12:43 PM
Bring it.
eyesky on February 12, 2013 at 12:44 PM
Not to mention that if you suddenly removed all the liberal media and the feds from the equation, Texas would be able to roll up their sleeves in a manner we haven’t seen since the Palmer raids.
Forget shoving ‘em into southbound boxcars. Send tanks and IFV’s down the streets with squads of American civilians bent on well-earned revenge and led by low-level military officers. I bet the tide would start going out for a change.
MelonCollie on February 12, 2013 at 12:46 PM
I won’t, they will.
astonerii on February 12, 2013 at 12:47 PM
If Texas secedes, then I will be one of the first illegal immigrants to cross their border.
yubley on February 12, 2013 at 12:49 PM
Wankel rotary engine…
yubley on February 12, 2013 at 12:55 PM
If they go, I will move there. Simple as that.
crrr6 on February 12, 2013 at 12:56 PM
Good Austin will need reinforcements.
harlekwin15 on February 12, 2013 at 12:59 PM
Either Texas will leave along with most/all of the red states, or all Americans will have to suffer under the soft-fascist/tribal dictatorship being erected before our eyes.
Rebar on February 12, 2013 at 1:00 PM
While I like the idea of Texas, I don’t want to live there. But that’s because I live in perhaps the reddest county in probably the reddest state in the Union–Utah. Texas is great, but Utah’s not doing too badly. I turn on the radio and half of the advertisments I hear are job fairs and such.
As far as Secession, though…. there’s no doubt that Texas would probably go first. Except for one thing: if Obama started trying to scapegoat the LDS church. We have a long cultural memory here, and we remember being under the heel of a truly oppressive government. Trust me, as bad as the Feds are now, it has NOTHING on what Utah experienced in the late 1800′s.
Out of curiosity, did you guys know that the Supreme Court has held (9-0, no less) that it is perfectly legal to deny Mormons the right to vote? Never been overturned. If Maryland or some liberal enclave wanted to, they could easily stop Mormons from voting. And it probably wouldn’t take a stretch to do it to other religious or conservative groups either.
Vanceone on February 12, 2013 at 1:01 PM
I forgot the snark tag but you obviously didn’t need it. Nice Catch
brtex on February 12, 2013 at 1:02 PM
It will only be SOFT for a very short while. Once it happens it moves very quickly to the hard and deadly.
astonerii on February 12, 2013 at 1:11 PM
If they go, I will move there. Simple as that.
crrr6 on February 12, 2013 at 12:56 PM
One of the reasons that we DID move here was, we wanted to be where freedom is if things go down.
annoyinglittletwerp on February 12, 2013 at 1:14 PM
A sure way to keep the Feds out of Texas is to rename the Red River the Rio Grande.
Limerick on February 12, 2013 at 1:15 PM
Lol, thank you!
MelonCollie on February 12, 2013 at 1:20 PM
Hey, maybe the Feds will give us free guns like they did for the drug cartels!
Rebar on February 12, 2013 at 1:23 PM
Federated States Of North America. With it’s capital at Gonzales.
GWB on February 12, 2013 at 1:24 PM
I would prefer a major attempt by the red states to enforce the Tenth Amendment, but this is always an option.
That would make for some nice symbolism
Corsair on February 12, 2013 at 1:58 PM
I wish Texas would.
Then invade the state to its west and free it. At least the southern half. The northern half is probably too far gone to the left to be worth the effort.
LegendHasIt on February 12, 2013 at 2:01 PM
I’m not worried about Utah- We already have a law on the books reserving the right to make our own currency, and there are more guns here in the hands of citizens than blades of grass. Utah’s economy is doing way better than the national average as well. But I doubt Utah would leave the US- it would stick around to be a shining light, literally on a hill.
Kristamatic on February 12, 2013 at 2:30 PM