Another example of his conservative heresy is the Texas Enterprise Fund, which Perry seem to be especially proud of. The purpose of the Fund is to dole out public money to lure companies to Texas. It has created tens of thousands of jobs in the state, but critics have not incorrectly, labeled it “corporate welfare,” a slush fund for well-connected businesses. The Observer investigated the fund in 2010 and found that several companies with political ties to Perry had received state grants. Some Texas Tea Party activists have been especially critical of Perry's Enterprise Fund, labeling it a quintessential example of wasteful government spending.
This paragraph is misleading. Companies who meet certain criteria of hiring and investing heavy capital in economically depressed areas are eligible to receive a refund on the sales tax they paid in connection with the Enterprise project. Depending on the capital invested and the number of eligible jobs created or maintained for the project, a company can get a max refund of $3.75 million for the project. They, of course, had to spend that much money in sales tax. So it's not quite as cut and dry as this article makes it sound.
Even if it's just public funds that came from the sales tax companies paid (and, in the case of out of state companies, often wouldn't have paid at all without the promise of getting it back if they brought their business to TX). I don't think that in and of itself is the real issue here though, rather the facts that
1) handing out public money isn't terribly conservative and
2) handing it out to well connected pals isn't terribly honest.
Umm to get an Enterprise refund, it has to go through the audit process. So either you qualify or you don't...not really seeing how it can be handed out
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Is Rick Perry the GOPs Future--or Americas New Reality?
- 22/08/2011 04:34:38 PM
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far left rags don't like Rick Perry, now that is a shocker *NM*
- 22/08/2011 05:11:00 PM
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Big picture, man.
- 22/08/2011 05:21:23 PM
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sorry I fell asleep somewhere in the middle of HPV vaccinations
- 22/08/2011 05:46:55 PM
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When she starts talking about what supporters will do to opponents, that comparison will work.
- 22/08/2011 06:13:24 PM
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no I just get tired of all the pissing and moaning about how mean republicans are
- 22/08/2011 06:28:13 PM
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Not playing the D/R game.
- 22/08/2011 06:32:15 PM
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Joel that is such BS
- 22/08/2011 06:47:52 PM
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Excuse me, but you're the only one citing mean attacks by either side against the other.
- 22/08/2011 06:59:37 PM
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did you hit your head Joel?
- 22/08/2011 07:32:10 PM
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Separate issue, but talking about what your supporters will do to people isn't very complex code.
- 22/08/2011 08:08:56 PM
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that argument only holds up if you ignore what he said and insert what you decided to hear *NM*
- 22/08/2011 08:37:26 PM
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The quote's on record and speaks for itself.
- 22/08/2011 08:41:19 PM
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I agree and it doesn't call on anyone to do anything to anyone
- 22/08/2011 10:17:59 PM
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You guys remind me of those two on the old Star Trek episode "Let This Be Your Last Battlefield". *NM*
- 23/08/2011 01:14:54 AM
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I remember that one. *NM*
I work on Enterprise Zone audits
- 22/08/2011 06:17:17 PM
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We're still talking public funds though.
- 22/08/2011 06:30:34 PM
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I don't understand the handing out part
- 22/08/2011 06:39:15 PM
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It comes from the "grants" part.
- 22/08/2011 06:45:33 PM
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Hmm this grant must be different
- 22/08/2011 06:58:20 PM
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That's what it sounds like.
- 22/08/2011 07:00:58 PM
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It looks like it
- 22/08/2011 07:09:13 PM
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Makes sense, but that explains why it's criticized as government spending: Because it is.
- 22/08/2011 07:20:15 PM
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maybe it is just your understanding of consecrative thought that is flawed
- 22/08/2011 06:54:36 PM
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"Some Texas Tea Party activists have been especially critical of Perry's Enterprise Fund... "
- 22/08/2011 07:07:17 PM
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you keep quoting left wing journals to prove the positions of the right like it proves something
- 22/08/2011 07:30:02 PM
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Never mind.
- 22/08/2011 08:08:04 PM
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like I said come up with a better argument than "I must be right because someone elses said it too" *NM*
- 22/08/2011 08:38:31 PM
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No and No, and I don't need to read the articles to answer that. *NM*
- 23/08/2011 12:39:20 AM
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On a purely metaphorical level I think it works, at least the second part.
- 23/08/2011 05:14:07 PM
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You seem to think there's a huge conspiracy, generally. There isn't.
- 24/08/2011 06:33:27 AM
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Even if it's only a conspiracy of circumstance (increasingly hard to believe), it's real.
- 25/08/2011 03:37:26 PM
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