Monday, January 18, 2010

Texas Shows Its Swagger in New Population Estimates

Subject: txt mny immig cali -
... No. 3 in percentage population growth in 2008-09 was giant Texas, the nation's second most populous state. Its population grew by almost half a million and accounted for 18 percent of the nation's total population growth. Texas had above-average immigrant growth, but domestic in-migration was nearly twice as high.

There may be lessons for public policy here. Texas over the decades has had low taxes (and no state income tax), low public spending and regulations that encourage job growth. It didn't have much of a housing bubble or a housing price bust.

Under Govs. George W. Bush and Rick Perry, it has placed tight limits on tort lawsuits, and has seen an influx of both corporate headquarters and medical doctors... [snip]

California grew at only a little more than the national average, entirely because of immigrant inflow and high immigrant birth rates. More Americans are leaving California than moving in...




[The empirical evidence throughout history is endless, if we only look. But we here on the Left coast will continue to send the same idiots back to Sacramento based on their Utopian visions of how things should work...]

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