When it comes to being pro-business, Texas is at the top or near the top in the nation and yet we get headlines like this: “Texas business groups endured unusually bruising legislative session”.
So what is it that is so bruising to Texas businesses according to the press?
Take this from the Austin American-Statesman: “Others in the state’s business community are limping away from the just-ended legislative session feeling the same, after some heretofore mainstream Republican business priorities ran headlong into an energized and powerful conservative branch of the GOP that they view as more interested in right-wing orthodoxy and social concerns.”
The piece continued with: “The influence of the right wing was widely felt, from a session-long, time-draining focus on where transgender people use the bathroom to a condemnation of taxpayer-funded incentives for economic development.”
First this is more bull-bleep about bathrooms as the Senate’s Privacy Act actually protected businesses from overreaching local ordinances and ensured that each business could set its own bathroom policies – a protection not presently on the books.
How the hell is that anti-business? It’s not and we all know it.
The second of the two complaints is nothing but a gripe from those relatively few businesses at the taxpayer trough.
Those folk are upset at the pushback against cronyism whereby public funds are handed to political friends and allies.
There is little positive for the Texas business climate when government hands public funds to private entities which, in turn, gives them an unfair advantage over their competitors.
The headline should have read: “Business liberals and crony capitalists unhappy with session.”
Business liberals and crony capitalists unhappy with session
Robert Pratt
When it comes to being pro-business, Texas is at the top or near the top in the nation and yet we get headlines like this: “Texas business groups endured unusually bruising legislative session”.
So what is it that is so bruising to Texas businesses according to the press?
Take this from the Austin American-Statesman: “Others in the state’s business community are limping away from the just-ended legislative session feeling the same, after some heretofore mainstream Republican business priorities ran headlong into an energized and powerful conservative branch of the GOP that they view as more interested in right-wing orthodoxy and social concerns.”
The piece continued with: “The influence of the right wing was widely felt, from a session-long, time-draining focus on where transgender people use the bathroom to a condemnation of taxpayer-funded incentives for economic development.”
First this is more bull-bleep about bathrooms as the Senate’s Privacy Act actually protected businesses from overreaching local ordinances and ensured that each business could set its own bathroom policies – a protection not presently on the books.
How the hell is that anti-business? It’s not and we all know it.
The second of the two complaints is nothing but a gripe from those relatively few businesses at the taxpayer trough.
Those folk are upset at the pushback against cronyism whereby public funds are handed to political friends and allies.
There is little positive for the Texas business climate when government hands public funds to private entities which, in turn, gives them an unfair advantage over their competitors.
The headline should have read: “Business liberals and crony capitalists unhappy with session.”