{"id":689979,"date":"2010-03-12T16:58:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T21:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f76\/low-tax-texas-beats-big-government-california-40778\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:25:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:25:44","slug":"low-tax-texas-beats-big-government-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/689979","title":{"rendered":"Low-tax Texas beats big-government California"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Low-tax Texas beats big-government California <\/p>\n<p><i>Washington Examiner<\/i><\/p>\n<p> &quot;Now it is California&#8217;s ruinously expensive and increasingly incompetent government that seems dysfunctional, while Texas&#8217; approach has generated more creativity and opportunity. So it&#8217;s not surprising that Texas voters preferred Perry over an opponent who has spent 16 years in Washington. What&#8217;s surprising is that Democrats in Washington are still trying to impose policies like those that have ravaged California rather than those that have proved so successful in Texas.&quot;<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"http:\/\/capwiz.com\/americansforprosperity\/utr\/1\/GXCUMERHKF\/OXASMERTQO\/4830928466\" ><font color=\"#000080\">Read more\u0085 <\/font><\/a><\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Low-tax Texas beats big-government California Washington Examiner &quot;Now it is California&#8217;s ruinously expensive and increasingly incompetent government that seems dysfunctional, while Texas&#8217; approach has generated more creativity and opportunity. So it&#8217;s not surprising that Texas voters preferred Perry over an opponent who has spent 16 years in Washington. What&#8217;s surprising is that Democrats in Washington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2750,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2TuH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2750"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791437,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689979\/revisions\/791437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}