Rick Perry: My State is So in the Black I Must Ask for Emergency Power to Return People's Money to Them

What could have been.

Texas' constitution does not permit the state to simply refund unneeded tax collections, and he's asking for an amendment permitting that. Due to holding the line on spending and near-the-best-in-the-country growth, they've got a surplus.

Perry, who is scheduled to deliver the speech Tuesday morning to a joint session of the Legislature, will tell lawmakers that he has “never bought into the notion that if you collect more, you need to spend more.”

I know he threw up on himself (as Brit Hume said) at the debates, and just rubbed people the wrong way on hot-buttons like immigration. (He rubbed me the wrong we there, too!)

But you do see why I was a fan, I trust.

posted by Ace at 04:18 PM

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