Texas outperformed every other state in the nation on jobs and growth over the past decade, according to the latest annual report on state economic performance released Thursday by the American Legislative Exchange Council. Michigan came in dead last.
The rankings are based on state GDP growth, population shifts, and changes in non-farm payroll jobs between 2001 and 2011.
The ALEC report also finds that Utah has the best economic outlook this year, and Vermont the worst.
That outlook ranking is based on more than a dozen public policies that the authors say are closely related to economic growth — including various tax rates, workers compensation costs, minimum wage laws, right to work laws, government jobs as a share of the workforce, and debt service as a share of tax revenues.
In addition, an IBD analysis of the data finds that conservative, Republican states vastly outperformed liberal, Democratic states over the past decade on jobs and economic growth, and attracted more people to their states.
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And yet "Texas is full of gun loving backwards hillbillies, retards, and gun toting Christian inbreeds who know absolutely nothing about life outside of their small little minds, racist attitudes, and old ways of living", says any "progressive" liberal pinko you talk to. Here's my response to those idiots : Okay brain stem, how's all the experimental multiculturalism, sanctuary cities, rainbow sorbet shitting fairies, and hope and changey shit working out for you in your broke ass state?" Go ahead, I'll wait, this ought ta be good..
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