Thread: Texas has the 2nd highest POVERTY RATE in the Nation!

"Perry wants us to know some other facts about his long record as Texas governor. His website is proud of his economic policies: “Texans enjoy one of the lowest tax burdens in the country and one of the lowest government debt burdens per capita”; he “cut taxes on small businesses and delivered a historic property tax cut”; he “protected the state’s Rainy Day Fund, which has $6 billion set aside for future needs.

Here are some things that Perry never speaks about. Texas has the second-highest poverty rate among the 50 states, behind only Mississippi. It has the second-highest percentage of population without a high school diploma. Texas leads the nation in the percentage of people with no health insurance, over one quarter. It is tied with Mississippi for having the biggest percentage of workers paid at or below the minimum wage."


Listening to Perry you would think Texas is the greatest place on earth!

http://www.myjournalcourier.com/arti...del-texas.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2PQ_gU9hN0#t=0m19s

all them minimum wage jobs goin to illegals...

Originally Posted by Defengar

all them minimum wage jobs goin to illegals...

Perry loves the illegals. He said so in the debate and pushed to give them a College education.

wonder if having a 38% Latino population might be part of it?

You need to compare Texas with a state with similar demographics since as someone already pointed out you have a HUGE illegal population there. California is the closest in demographics. California is falling apart at the seams and they are behind Texas in jobs, infrastructure, education and Texas spends alot less on these things and gets better results. Also the cost of living in Texas is far lower than in CA and I am not just referring to taxes. You can be at the poverty level in TX and live alot better than in most states.

Originally Posted by jackdog

wonder if having a 38% Latino population might be part of it?

probably has more to do with the 87% redneck population.

Originally Posted by yes/no

"Perry wants us to know some other facts about his long record as Texas governor. His website is proud of his economic policies: “Texans enjoy one of the lowest tax burdens in the country and one of the lowest government debt burdens per capita”; he “cut taxes on small businesses and delivered a historic property tax cut”; he “protected the state’s Rainy Day Fund, which has $6 billion set aside for future needs.

Here are some things that Perry never speaks about. Texas has the second-highest poverty rate among the 50 states, behind only Mississippi. It has the second-highest percentage of population without a high school diploma. Texas leads the nation in the percentage of people with no health insurance, over one quarter. It is tied with Mississippi for having the biggest percentage of workers paid at or below the minimum wage."


Listening to Perry you would think Texas is the greatest place on earth!

http://www.myjournalcourier.com/arti...del-texas.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2PQ_gU9hN0#t=0m19s

Interesting; I was under the impression that texas was a booming state with lots of opportunity for employment as opposed to living in the north where there were allegedly no jobs. Of course Texas is a right-to-work (right-to-starve) state, so you know even for those who work, many of them are still living in poverty.

Originally Posted by reallybigjohnson

Texas has the 2nd highest POVERTY RATE in the Nation!

You don't think all the illegal immigration has anything to do with it? Out of all the states, Texas does have the longest length of border alongside to Mexico. Texas has been petitioning the Federal government for many years now to compensate them for the disproportionate burden of all these illegal aliens, since the federal government has refused to assign adequate resources for immigration enforcement and border security.

All this cheap labor has been great for businesses in the short-term. But it is all a pyramid scheme the will come crashing down. When these impoverished workers, who barely earn enough to take care of themselves, have children, what then? The businesses will have to be taxed to provide expensive public education to all these children. Taxes will have to go up in the future to take care of all these poor people who are unnable to adequately take provide for themselves. The increased costs of law enforcement (police patrols, jails, the court system) and crime (businesses will have to install cameras and hire security guards) alone will outweigh whatever economic benefit there is now from cheap labor.

I live in Texas and thankfully have no State Income Tax. And I would think one reason our poverty level is higher is because we have a large majority of illegals in our State. The School system in the County I live in is outstanding compared to school systems in many other States, Counties and Cities. It is up to voters, parents in each County of any State to demand a good system of education because after all our taxes our paying for it.

The state where workman's comp insurance to cover employees is OPTIONAL for employers to provide! Guess who ends up paying for people badly injured on the job? The FEDERAL taxpayers!

The state where if a doctor drunkenly cuts off a leg when he was supposed to do an appendectomy, the patient would still HAVE to PROVE the doctor INTENDED to cut off the wrong leg to recover damages!

The state where the VOLUNTEER fireman can't come to save your house because they don't have gas money for the firetruck.

Yeah, baby, an EXCELLENT standard of living for the lucky and the predators! Everyone else? Not so much.