"Rick Perry's Jobs Strategy: Raiding Other States" - Jill Lawrence, The Atlantic

[Bozita]

Rick Perry's Jobs Strategy: Raiding Other States
SEP 12 2011, 11:27 AM ET4
Wooing companies to Texas with lower wages and less regulation is not a model that can be replicated at the national level
by Jill Lawrence

Rick Perry's campaign is publicizing a series of quotes from Meg Whitman intended to vouch for him as Mr. Job Creator. But her words, posted on his website and emailed to reporters, in fact paint him as Mr. Job Poacher, an economic marauder who raided other states for the greater glory of Texas and pursued a growth agenda that would be impossible to replicate on the national stage.

According to the Perry campaign, Whitman said last year: "Texas Governor Rick Perry says he comes on hunting trips to California. ... And I said, 'Really? What are you hunting out here?' He said, 'Companies.'"

Perry bragged to her about the "virtually zero percent corporate income tax" and "lightning speed" permitting process in Texas, she said. She praised the state's tort reforms and "ombudsmen for every industry." If she were launching eBay right now, Whitman says, "probably Texas" is where she'd do it.

That's all really great for Texas, but it's hard to see the benefit for anyplace else -- and even harder to see how it can be a model for the country at large.

more...
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/09/rick-perrys-jobs-strategy-raiding-other-states/244921/

[Loge23]

1. Wait a minute! That's Rick Scott's strategy also!

Job "creation"!