PRO-LIFE TEXAS BEATS CALIFORNIA AGAIN

PRO-LIFE TEXAS BEATS CALIFORNIA AGAIN

In pursuit of the truth - http://www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.org - Sunday, August 2, 2015

Preface:

     I perceive the Catholic-in-name-only politicians in California as despicable in their support of abortion and same-sex marriage. Not only are they screwed up religiously but also economically.

   
Here is an article by Chuck DeVore who is vice president of policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and represented the Irvine area in the California Assembly from 2004-2010.

Why the Texas economy is doing better than California? Orange County Register, June/July/2015

  
  Twelve percent of California's workforce is either in bureaucratic overhead or working as regulators, telling their fellow California what to do and how to do it. Texas has half that number.*

     Government spending is about priorities: spending signals whether elected representatives trust either the government or the people to best dispose of money...

   
 The two largest states, California and Texas, are very much alike in many respects:: demographically similar, ... abundant natural resources. Yet from 2002-12, Texas' real private economy grew buy 35% compared with 19 % in California. As for jobs, in the past ten years, Calif. non-farm employment grew by an anemic 2.6% while Texas' job base soared by 20%.... Texans now produce more goods and services per person than do Californians... California government is too big and spends too much money on the wrong things....

   
 Texas' successful efforts to reform its criminal justice system. Texas has recently closed three prisons while shifting resources from expensive incarceration to less expensive treatment and parole supervision program. ... But California prisons are so costly, about $50,000 per prisoner per year (double the cost in Texas)...

  
  As a share of state income, California's state and local governments tax 42% more than their Texas counterparts. As a share of the private economy, government is 44 % larger in Calif. and welfare spending is significantly greater as well... for every three people in poverty in Calif. there are about two in Texas.

  
  California's highways were rated the nation's fourth-worst.... Texas scored above average... The Department of Education  also estimated that only 78% of Calif. high school students graduate versus 88% in Texas....

  
  Texas employs more public safety and corrections employees per capita at the state and local level than does Calif.... Now reference the above * ... A 2009 study on the cost of regulatory compliance commissioned by the California Legislature estimated the regulatory burden to be four times the size of the state general fund budget. The study pegged the cost on the average small business at $134, 000 per year. ...

   
 This overbearing federal power has a name: soft tyranny, after Alexis de Tocqueville's warning of "a network of small complicated rules" driven by benign intentions... Among the 50 states, New York has America's highest level of soft tyranny, but California is close behind as number two. Texas is the freest state, followed by South Dakota.

GEORGE H. KUBECK,

   CINOP GOVERNOR JERRY BROWN SERIOUSLY HARMED THE CALIFORNIA'S PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM WHEN HE SIGNED THE RODDA ACT IN 1975 AND LEGALLY UNIONIZED PUBLIC EDUCATION. HE DESTROYED THE PROFESSION I WAS IN.

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