Thank Your Lucky Stars You’re In Texas — Not California!
Tory Gattis at The New Geography compiles six new reasons why Texas is well-positioned with value systems to make us a future leader in business, education and culture, which will all trickle down to a positive impact on local real estate. Example: they are debating a health care bill in D.C. that makes zero reference to tort reform. My husband is a physician who has enjoyed a 17% (or more) decrease in medical malpractice premiums since tort reform was enacted, a savings, unfortunately, he could not enjoy because of lower insurance reimbursements. We in Texas embrace laissez-faire markets. And with our fabulous new Arts District, this paragraph pops:
“Look to Texas to become a cutting-edge cultural mecca. Houston has always offered a vibrant cultural scene, ever since the Alley theater company was founded there in 1947 by Nina Eloise Whittington Vance. In the 1950s, John and Dominique de Menil moved to Houston with one of the most significant private collections of art in the world and began donating art and money to the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Both institutions have grown to world-class status since then. In the coming years, this trend will spread to the major cities of Texas (take that, Dallas!), attracting the best talent and money and shifting the cultural balance of the nation away from New York and San Francisco.”
Texas does not have a state income tax, and that makes many a CEO want to move here with company in tow. And we are not environmental Nazis, either. Our mission: maintain a balance, utilize common sense, and heed the words of William Shakespeare: First, you kill the lawyers.
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So what you are saying is that even if we do what the Republicans want to do with tort reform on a national level, it will not lower the cost of medical care to the people? Its purpose is to benefit the doctors and hospitals, not to lower the cost of health care to individuals? Thanks a lot.
These laissez-faire markets of which you speak–are these the same markets that took away health insurance from poor kids? The same markets that keep 46% of Texans uninsured?
Environmental Nazis? Tell that to the folks around Midlothian who are choking to death (not to mention the rest of us downwind from those plants).
And, lastly, your famous quote from Shakespeare–read the whole quote in its context. Shakespeare is saying that if you want to create anarchy as a basis for revolting against government, you must get rid of the lawyers first. Is that what you are advocating: anarchy as a pretext for revolution?
@Bob Tongue in cheek my dear my child is an attorney married to an attorney. The whole point is let’s not over legislate or sue ourselves into oblivion.
Alley?
So what is Margo Jones, chopped liver?
Tory Gattis needs some introduction to Ray Nasher, Stanley Marcus and many other famous Dallas denizens. I hope Maria Callas will haunt him..
Spoken like a real diva Dallas doctor’s wife… gotta love her! I’m uninsured after working my ass off for 37 years and may remain uninsured until I reach 65 some 8 years away should I live that long. Forty years ago when I lived in the Houston area the ship channel used to catch on fire from time to time… and still would if we didn’t have a few environmental laws on the books that are some times enforced.. stick to real estate Candy…where you shine best…
Free markets is what got the US great, and ‘progressive’ regulation is what will destroy us.