I wonder if this story:
Hanger Orthopedics Group said today it will move its headquarters from Bethesda, Md., to Austin later this year. It is Austin’s biggest economic development win in a long time.
The American-Statesman reported last week that Hanger was negotiating a 75,000 square foot lease at the Domain development — enough space for 250 to 300 employees. Mayor Lee Leffingwell said the city was in discussions about incentives and that a City Council vote could come soon.
In a news release this morning, Hanger said it had considered several cities before deciding on Austin.
The company said the move would be completed in the third quarter.
“Hanger’s new Austin headquarters will provide ample space for future growth, improved operational efficiency, and an enhanced quality of life for corporate employees,” the release said. “Austin’s central location in the United States will also facilitate improved communication with Hanger’s national footprint of more than 700 patient care centers and supporting operational locations.”
Has anything to do with this story:
The Tax Foundation’s 2009 State Business Tax Climate Index, a ranking of the 50 state tax systems that provides a roadmap for state lawmakers concerned with keeping their states tax-competitive, ranks Texs as the 7th best tax state in the nation for businesses.
Maryland is 45th on that last, behind only the dying economic states of New Jersey (the worst), New York, California, Ohio, and Rhode Island.
That’s 300 new jobs coming to Texas. That’s a bunch of tax dollars going to the state of Texas.
Make no doubt about it…this win for Texas is a direct result of Conservative leadership in our state, and our continued Conservative fiscal polices. The types of sound fiscal policy that Democrat Bill White would try to destroy.
(hat tip to David Gunther of the Texas Public Policy Foundation via Twitter for the links)
Now if we could only convince Ford or GM to relocate their operations to right to work Texas, they could get their business in order more quickly.
As long as the residents of the state are not negatively impacted that the blue collar workers in Kansas were by luring big business.
Robbie, notice how all of a sudden, pscyho steven’s gravatar has disappeared from all the ip’s?
He had to do it, other wise it would have shown up with his sock puppets.
I quit logging in because I was tired of getting emails alerting me that you were trying to deflect my opinion with some vulgar statement.
Liar.
Fallacy – Personal Attack -
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/personal-attack.html
fraud:
1 a : deceit, trickery; specifically : intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right b : an act of deceiving or misrepresenting : trick
2 a : a person who is not what he or she pretends to be : impostor; also : one who defrauds : cheat b : one that is not what it seems or is represented to be
liar:
a person who tells lies
plagiarize:
transitive verb : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own : use (another’s production) without crediting the source
intransitive verb : to commit literary theft : present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source
— pla·gia·riz·er noun
nutjob:
Noun: nutjob
1. A person who is regarded as eccentric or mad
– nutter [Brit], wacko, whacko, nutcake [US], nutbar [N. Amer], basket case, whackjob [N. Amer], mentalist [Brit], wackjob [N. Amer]
Dumbass, if you didn’t want emails informing you of a new message proving what a tool you are, you shouldn’t of checked the box asking for emails to inform you of new messages proving what tool you are.
That’s not why he dropped his gravatar, it some times shows up when he uses a proxy, like the one time from Holland.
And I don’t appreciate you calling Brad Fruendenberg and tattling on me today, NO2LIBERALS. It shows what a weak, spineless shell of a man you are.
Ha!
It wasn’t me, I was too busy, but it was on my to do list.
And yet…you’re still here.
So much for that rich full life you told us all you had to take care of, when you lied and said you were leaving.
Obviously not me, again. Keep it up.
Ahh, now it’s the dutch proxy again.
You’ve used them twice today and Montreal, what’s next the Scranton server?
I dont know, you use them. Your posts and the ones under “my name” sound the same.
BLAAAAAH-HAAAH-HAAAH-HA-HA-HA!
Here is your defining word, dingus.
Obfuscate:
transitive verb
1 a : darken b : to make obscure
2 : confuse
intransitive verb : to be evasive, unclear, or confusing
— ob·fus·ca·tion – noun
You used a verb to describe me…
Is anyone else watching the dog and pony show Congress and the bank CEOs are putting on?