http://chiefexecutive.net/best-worst-states-for-business Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:40:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://chiefexecutive.net/best-worst-states-for-business#comment-409 termiteteacher Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:21:06 +0000 http://184.106.107.23/?p=24649#comment-409 Where do you live? It can't be Texas. Sure we have a lot of problems but the standard of living is not one of them. Example: My wife watches the channel where they sell 80 year old, 1200 square foot houses in the East or West coasts for $300K. My neighborhood outside a small Texas town, is gate guarded, with golf course, consists of houses ranging from $140K to a few that may go for $400K. I bought mine new a just before the housing bubble burst and I paid $165K for 2200 square foot brick on a 175' x 150' lot, streets paved and curbed. We aren't big on unions here. We compete. All of us. If we want more, we work more --- or smarter. We don't pay state income taxes, our state employee pension plan is solvent for the next 30 years and we drive like Hell along the nicest (and longest) roads in the country. How do we do it, we don't over promise and give other people's money away like California or New York. The lone star on the Texas flag means, "We can do it by ourselves." We don't neeeeeeeeeed nooooooooooo stiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinking outside help or hinderences. Where do you live? It can’t be Texas. Sure we have a lot of problems but the standard of living is not one of them. Example: My wife watches the channel where they sell 80 year old, 1200 square foot houses in the East or West coasts for $300K. My neighborhood outside a small Texas town, is gate guarded, with golf course, consists of houses ranging from $140K to a few that may go for $400K. I bought mine new a just before the housing bubble burst and I paid $165K for 2200 square foot brick on a 175′ x 150′ lot, streets paved and curbed. We aren’t big on unions here. We compete. All of us. If we want more, we work more — or smarter. We don’t pay state income taxes, our state employee pension plan is solvent for the next 30 years and we drive like Hell along the nicest (and longest) roads in the country. How do we do it, we don’t over promise and give other people’s money away like California or New York. The lone star on the Texas flag means, “We can do it by ourselves.” We don’t neeeeeeeeeed nooooooooooo stiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinking outside help or hinderences.

]]> http://chiefexecutive.net/best-worst-states-for-business#comment-209 teammillionaires Tue, 31 May 2011 06:00:33 +0000 http://184.106.107.23/?p=24649#comment-209 If you believe that, you cannot be a Texan. If you own a business, especially if you brought your business from another state, you wouldn't ask that question. Maybe you should ask the 3,000 Californians per week moving here, or the largest group of millionaires and billionaires on the planet who live here. Or maybe because Texas would be the third riches country in the world if we succeed. If you believe that, you cannot be a Texan. If you own a business, especially if you brought your business from another state, you wouldn’t ask that question. Maybe you should ask the 3,000 Californians per week moving here, or the largest group of millionaires and billionaires on the planet who live here. Or maybe because Texas would be the third riches country in the world if we succeed.

]]> http://chiefexecutive.net/best-worst-states-for-business#comment-119 mrfrederikson Thu, 12 May 2011 18:02:01 +0000 http://184.106.107.23/?p=24649#comment-119 Texas has one of the lowest standards of living in the country and one of the highest poverty rates as well. So tell me why would I like to be like Texas? Texas has one of the lowest standards of living in the country and one of the highest poverty rates as well. So tell me why would I like to be like Texas?

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