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The eyes of Texas
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New York Post, by Editorial
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Posted By:StormCnter, 2/4/2013 5:11:59 AM
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| Texas’ attorney general ran ads here last month that encouraged “law-abiding New York gun owners looking for lower taxes and greater opportunity” to relocate to the Lone Star state. Now Gov. Rick Perry has sweetened the pot: Faced with a budget “problem” New York would love to have — an expected $5.5 billion surplus — he’s looking to amend the Texas Constitution so he can refund the extra money to taxpayers. Meanwhile, back here on the home front, New York’s governor hopes to amend his state constitution. But instead of returning money to the state’s heavily burdened taxpayers, Andrew Cuomo’s changes
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I very much wanted Governor Perry to be in a Romney administration, maybe as Energy Secretary, but it wasn´t to be.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
JoniTx, 2/4/2013 5:21:14 AM (No. 9156827)
~~Think about that: If Rick Perry has his way, Texans will decide whether they keep more of what they earn. If Andrew Cuomo has his way, New Yorkers will have new opportunities to lose their rent money.
New York has sky-high income and property taxes and is deep in the red. In sharp contrast, Texas doesn’t even have an income tax, and its government has more money than it can spend.~~
Must be a lesson in there somehow.....
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
chumley, 2/4/2013 5:30:51 AM (No. 9156831)
His biggest criticism of Cuomo seems to be that he wants to allow casinos in NY. Much as I hate that place with a purple passion, allowing casinos is far better than taxing people.
If you dont want to go to the casino it costs you nothing.
Better yet, accept Perry´s offer and move to a free state.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
john56, 2/4/2013 7:51:31 AM (No. 9156952)
If you do move to Texas, please check your liberal way of thinking and "how we did it back in NooooYooooork" at the Red River before crossing into the state.
Otherwise, stay home ... because as a Texas resident, I´m kinda in favor of a border fence. Along our northern, eastern, and western borders.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
eoddad, 2/4/2013 7:52:36 AM (No. 9156956)
What a great idea, compare liberal policies to conservatives and surprise surprise surprise conservative policies work and liberal ones don´t.
Please NYers south Florida is much more suited to you than Texas we do have a culture to protect and since south Florida has already bought NY culture, well lets just say better.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Cherrybark, 2/4/2013 7:54:46 AM (No. 9156960)
NO, don´t move down here. Leave us alone. You voted for Cuomo´s administration and policies now live with it or vote him out and clean up your own mess. The very last thing Texas needs or wants is an influx of liberals who start voting for "little changes" to make things "better".
Submitted from behind the Pine Curtain, East Texas.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
The Architect, 2/4/2013 8:08:02 AM (No. 9156971)
Not all New Yorkers voted for "Evil Eye" Cuomo. There are alot of us who are conservative. But being a main port state, we are being overwhelmed with immigrants who want to come here for the free stuff they can get. So once they get legal status they vote for every liberal give away and every liberal politician who promises them more free stuff. Its an ever expanding death spiral.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mickturn, 2/4/2013 10:29:23 AM (No. 9157344)
SO the bottom line is; NY sucks and Texas Soars!
Another Lib Success!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mickturn, 2/4/2013 10:30:59 AM (No. 9157347)
PS. Leave your Lib crap in NY. Bring it to Texas and you might have a huge problem and be forced to leave!
The Californication citizens brought their stupidity to Texas and most have been run out of town...ever hear of Tar and Feathering?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
john56, 2/4/2013 9:42:07 PM (No. 9158743)
#8 ... if we haven´t tarred-and-feathered the California kooks that moved to Texas, then those were the ones who moved to Austin.
When we´re building that fence around our northern borders, let´s build another around Austin. With a one-way cattle gate to keep the Austin liberals in.
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —
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Gluten-free diets are all the rage, but they can be dangerous if not done right. What is gluten? It´s the spongy complex of proteins, found naturally in wheat, rye, and barley, that gives elasticity to dough and allows it to rise. When flour is moistened and either kneaded or mixed into dough, gluten molecules form an elastic, microscopic latticework that traps the carbon dioxide produced when yeast ferments, causing dough to inflate like a hot air balloon. Baking hardens the gluten, which helps the finished product keep its shape. Wheat — and gluten — is ubiquitous in the American diet.
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