Small business blogger Erica Douglass explains why—although she’s not a Republican (nor a social conservative)—excessive red tape and taxes on her business have driven her to leave Jerry Brown’s California for Rick Perry’s Texas. She sums up her politics this way:
I believe in small government, dramatically lower spending, and the right for everyone to smoke marijuana and marry whomever they want (as long as both people are consenting adults). I refused to vote Republican or Democrat in the last presidential election because both candidates believed we should spend our way out of a spending problem. And I abhor the Republicans’ current stance of cutting spending on everything but the military. I love Ron Paul as a politician, but I don’t understand how someone so obviously brilliant doesn’t believe in evolution, and it’s for that reason that I don’t want to see him run as President.
Thus, the plight (and flight) of the libertarian-minded independents. I doubt she’d vote for Rick Perry because of his social views, but many others who are fed up might, and Perry’s message is being delivered with pizzazz.
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posted by Doug on
LIke a lot of us that are disgusted with both parties I suspect that Ms. Douglass, like myself, will probably not vote this time around. What’s the point, both sides are bought and paid for by their respective lobbyist. I’m to the point where I could give a — what and who gets elected.
posted by BobN on
Small business blogger Erica Douglass is in for quite a surprise.
I get so tired of people complaining about CA taxes and praising TX. One of the reasons TX has no income tax is eight decades of subsidies from the federal govt, a good portion of that coming from CA.
Anyway, hope she enjoys her new home. I know I wouldn’t.
posted by North Dallas Thirty on
Small business blogger Erica Douglass is in for quite a surprise.
Of course you think that, BobN, because you think she’s an idiot who didn’t evaluate the situation before she made the decision to move. Otherwise, there is no way she would have moved to Texas, because you, being right about everything, KNOW that she is wrong and that there is no way Texas could be better for her than California. Clearly, by your own estimation, she’s a half-wit who can’t think for herself and needs your superior intelligence to guide her.
Knee-jerk liberals like yourself can’t understand how anyone could make a decision with which you disagree, and certainly can’t understand why other people don’t buy your bigotry or your unsourced assertions about Texas. It must blow your mind how people see the utter liberal paradise you’ve made out of California and decide to move elsewhere. I mean, as a small businessperson, she should be GLAD you make her life impossible, just like the hotels you want to force to buy millions of dollars worth of fitted sheets should be grateful to you, their liberal better, for making decisions for them.
posted by BobN on
Of course you think that, BobN, because…
You have no idea why I think that and, given your further complaints, it’s clear you misunderstand.
posted by Houndentenor on
California or Texas? Those are the choices? Blech.