SocraticGadfly: Don't be so smug on jobs, Rick Perry

March 10, 2011

Don't be so smug on jobs, Rick Perry

New research shows that, especially when compared with Texas, California does NOT have an inherently anti-business mindset, economy or regulatory overburden. Also, to the degree Tejas has had economic growth, it's primarily due to two things: population growth and targeting low-wage jobs for job growth.

Throw out the housing bubble in California, which in fair part has to do with a population at least half as large as Texas' on a smaller patch of land, and in fair part has to do with (earthquakes aside) that land being more scenic and desirable than any in Texas, and we wouldn't even be having this discussion.

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