“Car manufacturers left hanging as bill grinds to halt”
Can you imagine such a headline? Detroit is unable to decide which cars to build, where to sell them, or what regulations to follow because of a bill stalled in Congress? Should such a situation ever occur, even with all our inclinations to protect the automobile industry, [...]

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MySA.com: Politics
Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday announced the creation of a competitive council designed to strengthen the state’s economic development clout.”Toyota came to Texas in spite of the state’s inability at that time to offer meaningful incentives,” Perry said during the closing keynote speech at the Texas Lyceum’s conference at the Convention Center.
Toyota, which opens [...]

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I didn’t know this part about the Trans-Texas Corridor:
MySA.com: Commentary:
Yet today, amid the discussions about farmland, foreign involvement and NAFTA, I hear little about the subject of one small paragraph near the end of this article. The paragraph reads, “Traffic levels on I-35 will help determine toll rates and limits on building competing public roads. [...]

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Reason #3
Because by cutting taxes he saved you an average of $20 in taxes.
109th Congress, 2nd session, House vote 135 | Congress votes database | washingtonpost.com:
This bill extended the Bush administration’s previously passed tax cuts on dividends and capital gains, and spared about 15 million middle-income Americans from the alternative minimum tax.The Washington Post reported [...]

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If you think we should provide financial assistance to corporations that move overseas to avoid paying U.S. taxes, Bonilla is your guy. He voted against the Sanders amendment that would have denied assistance to such companies.

2004-Deny Export-Import Bank Subsidies to Corporate ExpatriatesRepresentative Bernard Sanders (D-VT) offered an amendment to H.R. 4818, the Foreign Operations Appropriations [...]

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Gosh, after reading David Hendrick’s column on the Texas Enterprise fund, one would wonder how Texas has managed to attract any businesses at all to the state over the past 30 years.
MySA.com: Columnists:
The survey question could be rephrased. “Would you be in favor of hanging a gigantic sign on the state Capitol building reading:’Texas is [...]

Posted in Buseinss Incentives, Corporate Welfare, David Hendricks, Rick Perry, San Antonio Economic Development Foundation, San Antonio Express News, Tax Abatements, Texas enterprise fund, Toyota, Union Pacific, texas, texas politics No Comments »