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Here's one big take-away from a recent letter to Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick from associations representing Texas' biggest businesses on the topic of tax cuts and the budget. Investment in the state's infrastructure is good for business. Better, in fact, than tax cuts.
The letter was signed by the Texas Association of Business, Texas Association of Manufacturers, Texas Taxpayers and Research Association,Cheap NFL Jerseys Free Shipping, Association of Electric Companies of Texas, Texas Chemical Council, Texas Oil and Gas Association, and Texas Association of Realtors.
To imagine that Texans don't want better schools, roads and more sufficient water is a failure, not just of imagination, but of vision. We applaud the business associations for making this clear. In this regard, their self-interest is the rest of ours as well.
Texas investment, not cuts, best
Legislators' response to the letter was,Wholesale Jerseys USA, essentially, that tax cuts are what was promised at election time and what will be delivered. But they weren't elected on any single issue, and any reading of the election in such terms — particularly with such low voter turnout — says more about ideological bent than good listening skills.
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Roads continuing to be congested and badly maintained? Goods then have difficulty getting from manufacturers and distributors to all the businesses that sell to consumers. Those businesses that can then flee. Others stay away.
But those conflicts aside that pit small and bigger businesses against one another, the letter makes clear that tax cuts shouldn't be considered unless those items on which all businesses depend to keep the doors open are first considered. And in this, businesses,Cheap Jerseys Supply, homeowners, consumers and every other Texan can find common ground because these are the things on which all of Texas depends.
If schools continue to be underfunded, the fallout will be in lack of skilled labor, disappearing jobs and then decreased state tax revenues.
The list of state needs is long enough to warrant more attention to them than on tax cuts.
Yes,Wholesale China Jerseys, if that tax relief occurs, these associations expect a better deal than the one proposed that, they say, favors small businesses. This plan, they contend, would leave just 55,000 of the state's 1 million registered businesses subject to the tax.
The letter says it in simple terms. "With the state in excellent fiscal shape, we encourage the Legislature to wisely deploy our healthy surplus and ensure that Texans have the infrastructure and skills for our economy to continue to thrive. Once that is assured,Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic, we encourage the Legislature to give consideration to tax relief."
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