Courtesy of the always-on-top-of-the-money Trey Garrison, here’s the breakout by state. (I told you guys to vote for Obama).
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Texas is getting exactly the amount it deserves, considering the resistance in this state to moderate policies or even bipartisanship.
Meanwhile, my regular news-o-gram from the appropriately-named “Con Marchant” continues to use our Speaker’s name to demonize the Democrats and rile up the fundie base. Here’s a quote from today’s missive, which I just received via email:
“House Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid Have Not Yet Received the Memo:
Despite President Obama’s pledge to work with members of both parties to forge a bipartisan compromise, I am discouraged by the actions of Pelosi and Reid in recent days regarding any economic stimulus package. Senator Reid has not allowed any Republican amendment to any bill to be considered since July. Speaker Pelosi, even with her increased majorities, further diminished the opportunity for members of the minority party to offer either alternative bills or amendments even though her large majorities could likely defeat most Republican amendments if called up for a vote. Like we saw with the $700 billion bailout which has proven problematic to say the least, I do not believe any effective economic stimulus can be crafted without minority input; the first, and perhaps most significant, legislation to be considered by our new President should not be rammed through without debate or amendment.
Pelosi “Stimulus” Has More Pork Than a BBQ at a Hog Calling Contest:
The bill being proposed by Pelosi is not stimulus. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projected that only 7% of the infrastructure spending would be spent by September of 2009 and only 1/3 of spending would happen in the next two years. Under the guise of only approving “shovel-ready” projects, Pelosi has curiously back-loaded the so-called stimulus with special interest projects, pork-barrel spending, and earmarks stretching until 2019. With all economic experts agreeing that we will be out of a recession late in 2010, why would 2/3 of the “stimulus” be earmarked for 2012-2019? This is a trojan horse for wasteful government spending when we could give the American people wide-ranging, bold, and fast-acting tax relief so they can spend their own money the way they best see fit for their families. For those addicted to spreading pork around their district, inserting hundreds of billions in earmarks into this “urgent” stimulus bill is just the vehicle they needed. Furthermore, even if this bill was front-loaded, there is no needs-based assessment or shovel-ready test for these projects.”
Note to Con Marchant: your party LOST. By a lot. Hence the disinterest from the Dems in your “input.”
@ 2:40 pm on January 26, 2009
The disconcerting thing is that during the debates over the stimulus package, people like Charlie Rangle wanted to bypass state legislatures, and give the Federal money directly to areas of the country where the federal government saw fit. Pardon me if I’m wrong, but I believe the Civil War was about two major issues, one of them being states’ rights.
At least Texas gets to spend its pitily 7% on where it feels it’s needed……for now. In the future, and with this economy, I really fear that Obama, is going to increase the size of this government and smaller weaker states are going to eat up all the money doled out by the Fed and in the process giveaway the strength of their own states’ rights. Hey, it works for crack dealers.
@ 2:44 pm on January 26, 2009
Texas doesn’t need much stimulus. One could argue we should get less than others.
@ 2:46 pm on January 26, 2009
I know lots of Texas businesses that could use some stimulus, unfortunately compared to other states in the nation our overall prospects are superior.
It would be nice to see more pressure put on our state to see what kind of “stimulus” they would be willing to offer Texas businesses. Especially with the ginormous surplus they are sitting on. Modifying the newly revised Franchise Tax would be a good start to help those industries under the most pressure right now.
For example, in the restaurant industry, there is no deduction allowed in the calculation of franchise taxes for gross receipts tax paid to the state. In other words, taxes are paid on money already paid in tax to Texas. Same with property taxes – it seems that property taxes paid to a local entity should not be subject then again to franchise tax.
@ 2:53 pm on January 26, 2009
Texas is getting exactly the amount it deserves, considering the resistance in this state to moderate policies or even bipartisanship.
So… if you don’t work with me, you’re against me?
Yup. That’s change alright.
@ 2:54 pm on January 26, 2009
Still, Texas got almost double the amount of Barack’s home state of Illinois.
@ 2:57 pm on January 26, 2009
Measly 7 percent? If you click on the map from the provided link, you’ll see that Texas is getting the 3rd highest amount of money, behind California and New York. Makes sense to me. But that wouldn’t make for as good a headline.
@ 3:00 pm on January 26, 2009
This isn’t a stimulus bill, it’s all pork.
@ 3:19 pm on January 26, 2009
From Charles Krauthammer:
Look, this is one of the worst bills in galactic history. It’s not only on the timing of it—as we saw from the Congressional Budget Office, more than half of the infrastructure stuff with the bridges and roads will not be spent until two years hence when the recession will be likely over or coming out of it, and it will only add to inflation, not jobs.
And it’s the content of this. We heard earlier in Major’s report, a third of a billion for contraception, a billion to states to help them collect child support, nursing training—all this is worthy, but it ain’t stimulus.
If you look at what was left behind after last year’s stimulus, $160 billion, it didn’t have any effect on the economy. It left nothing behind.
This bill has a fifth of a billion for grass at the Jefferson Memorial. FDR left behind the Hoover dam and Eisenhower left behind the interstate highway system. We will leave behind, after spending $1 trillion, a dog run in East Potomac Park.
@ 3:28 pm on January 26, 2009
According to the 2008 census estimate, Texas population is 7.81% of the overall US population. So, our share is about right if based purely on a per capita basis.
@ 3:55 pm on January 26, 2009
Texas is lower income, so we pay less income tax per capita.
So it’s not clear if we still might get more than we pay.
@ 4:06 pm on January 26, 2009
Texas is swimming in blood-soak oil money.
I say let Texans drown in it by themselves
@ 4:14 pm on January 26, 2009
Poor Krauthammer, citing a CBO study that doesn’t even exist. And poor Doug, posting Krauthammer’s ill-informed rant a full three days after that inconvenient fact was revealed.
Must be tough to look relevant these days.
@ 4:42 pm on January 26, 2009
Our Governor Perry actually told Congress he didn’t want any stimulus money from Texas.
These statistics are for losers. The money is aimed at helping people, not kicking back to states that went blue. If I were Obama, I wouldn’t put anything out there that that a$$ John Cornyn could take credit for. Or Jeb Hensarling. Remember when he was standing up for fiscal responsiblity — right after the GOP got its head handed to it by the electorate? They’re all worthless, and they deserve nothing. But this percentage game has trouble written all over it.
@ 2:13 pm on January 27, 2009
FrontBurner® launched in March 2003, the first blog in Dallas run by a media organization. This is where the editors of D Magazine come to waste a tremendous amount of time.
15 comments
Texas is getting exactly the amount it deserves, considering the resistance in this state to moderate policies or even bipartisanship.
Meanwhile, my regular news-o-gram from the appropriately-named “Con Marchant” continues to use our Speaker’s name to demonize the Democrats and rile up the fundie base. Here’s a quote from today’s missive, which I just received via email:
“House Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid Have Not Yet Received the Memo:
Despite President Obama’s pledge to work with members of both parties to forge a bipartisan compromise, I am discouraged by the actions of Pelosi and Reid in recent days regarding any economic stimulus package. Senator Reid has not allowed any Republican amendment to any bill to be considered since July. Speaker Pelosi, even with her increased majorities, further diminished the opportunity for members of the minority party to offer either alternative bills or amendments even though her large majorities could likely defeat most Republican amendments if called up for a vote. Like we saw with the $700 billion bailout which has proven problematic to say the least, I do not believe any effective economic stimulus can be crafted without minority input; the first, and perhaps most significant, legislation to be considered by our new President should not be rammed through without debate or amendment.
Pelosi “Stimulus” Has More Pork Than a BBQ at a Hog Calling Contest:
The bill being proposed by Pelosi is not stimulus. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projected that only 7% of the infrastructure spending would be spent by September of 2009 and only 1/3 of spending would happen in the next two years. Under the guise of only approving “shovel-ready” projects, Pelosi has curiously back-loaded the so-called stimulus with special interest projects, pork-barrel spending, and earmarks stretching until 2019. With all economic experts agreeing that we will be out of a recession late in 2010, why would 2/3 of the “stimulus” be earmarked for 2012-2019? This is a trojan horse for wasteful government spending when we could give the American people wide-ranging, bold, and fast-acting tax relief so they can spend their own money the way they best see fit for their families. For those addicted to spreading pork around their district, inserting hundreds of billions in earmarks into this “urgent” stimulus bill is just the vehicle they needed. Furthermore, even if this bill was front-loaded, there is no needs-based assessment or shovel-ready test for these projects.”
Note to Con Marchant: your party LOST. By a lot. Hence the disinterest from the Dems in your “input.”
The disconcerting thing is that during the debates over the stimulus package, people like Charlie Rangle wanted to bypass state legislatures, and give the Federal money directly to areas of the country where the federal government saw fit. Pardon me if I’m wrong, but I believe the Civil War was about two major issues, one of them being states’ rights.
At least Texas gets to spend its pitily 7% on where it feels it’s needed……for now. In the future, and with this economy, I really fear that Obama, is going to increase the size of this government and smaller weaker states are going to eat up all the money doled out by the Fed and in the process giveaway the strength of their own states’ rights. Hey, it works for crack dealers.
Texas doesn’t need much stimulus. One could argue we should get less than others.
I know lots of Texas businesses that could use some stimulus, unfortunately compared to other states in the nation our overall prospects are superior.
It would be nice to see more pressure put on our state to see what kind of “stimulus” they would be willing to offer Texas businesses. Especially with the ginormous surplus they are sitting on. Modifying the newly revised Franchise Tax would be a good start to help those industries under the most pressure right now.
For example, in the restaurant industry, there is no deduction allowed in the calculation of franchise taxes for gross receipts tax paid to the state. In other words, taxes are paid on money already paid in tax to Texas. Same with property taxes – it seems that property taxes paid to a local entity should not be subject then again to franchise tax.
Texas is getting exactly the amount it deserves, considering the resistance in this state to moderate policies or even bipartisanship.
So… if you don’t work with me, you’re against me?
Yup. That’s change alright.
Still, Texas got almost double the amount of Barack’s home state of Illinois.
Measly 7 percent? If you click on the map from the provided link, you’ll see that Texas is getting the 3rd highest amount of money, behind California and New York. Makes sense to me. But that wouldn’t make for as good a headline.
This isn’t a stimulus bill, it’s all pork.
From Charles Krauthammer:
Look, this is one of the worst bills in galactic history. It’s not only on the timing of it—as we saw from the Congressional Budget Office, more than half of the infrastructure stuff with the bridges and roads will not be spent until two years hence when the recession will be likely over or coming out of it, and it will only add to inflation, not jobs.
And it’s the content of this. We heard earlier in Major’s report, a third of a billion for contraception, a billion to states to help them collect child support, nursing training—all this is worthy, but it ain’t stimulus.
If you look at what was left behind after last year’s stimulus, $160 billion, it didn’t have any effect on the economy. It left nothing behind.
This bill has a fifth of a billion for grass at the Jefferson Memorial. FDR left behind the Hoover dam and Eisenhower left behind the interstate highway system. We will leave behind, after spending $1 trillion, a dog run in East Potomac Park.
According to the 2008 census estimate, Texas population is 7.81% of the overall US population. So, our share is about right if based purely on a per capita basis.
Texas is lower income, so we pay less income tax per capita.
So it’s not clear if we still might get more than we pay.
Texas is swimming in blood-soak oil money.
I say let Texans drown in it by themselves
Poor Krauthammer, citing a CBO study that doesn’t even exist. And poor Doug, posting Krauthammer’s ill-informed rant a full three days after that inconvenient fact was revealed.
Must be tough to look relevant these days.
Our Governor Perry actually told Congress he didn’t want any stimulus money from Texas.
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/01/23/texas-says-no-to-federal-dole/
These statistics are for losers. The money is aimed at helping people, not kicking back to states that went blue. If I were Obama, I wouldn’t put anything out there that that a$$ John Cornyn could take credit for. Or Jeb Hensarling. Remember when he was standing up for fiscal responsiblity — right after the GOP got its head handed to it by the electorate? They’re all worthless, and they deserve nothing. But this percentage game has trouble written all over it.