Robert Pratt
George Mason University’s respected Mercatus Center evaluated the effect of on each state’s economy of Federal regulations. A listener sent the report noting more evidence of the War on Texas I’ve documented and the data back it up.
The report says that for 2013, Texas ranked 6th for effect of federal regulation and the effect of federal regulation on Texas industries was 29 percent higher than the impact on the nation overall. When researchers calculate their FRASE index for growth relative to 1997, the constant-basis of the index shows the effect of Federal regulation on the Texas economy has grown forty-four percent between 1997 and 2016. That includes the full years of the not so domestically conservative Bush administration as well as that of Obama.
Had the Federal economic harassment not been so great, what is already called the Texas Miracle could have been eclipsed to such a degree that even boats most inland could have been raised by the massive economic tide.
Alas such wasn’t to be for the same reason that the nation as a whole cannot see the robust economic growth needed to empower even the poorest among us: Democrats, the bureaucracy, and even some insider-Republicans prefer trying hands-on management of the economy, using it to obtain political power, as opposed to simply standing aside facilitating growth and acting as policeman where appropriate.
A special thought for voters in Texas 19th Congressional District: We’ll get little different if we send to Congress those whose life experience is found as a player in the public sector bureaucracies such as Jodey Arrington. This is a top reason I hope voters send a true, self-made small-businessman to Congress. Glen Robertson isn’t part of the political-insider game and has the healthy aversion to such that we need to right the ship.
Robert,
If the affinity for outsiders in Republican presidential race has any bearing on the 19th Congressional District race, then Roberts should win handily because Arrington is the antithesis of an outsider.