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What should the State of Texas focus on?

Illegal immigration
13 (34.2%)
The military
1 (2.6%)
Education
7 (18.4%)
Freedom of Religion
8 (21.1%)
Other - please state in your comments.
9 (23.7%)

Total Members Voted: 17

Voting closed: May 27, 2016, 04:04:42 am

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Offline Sanguine

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Re: What's the plan, fellow Texans?
« Reply #50 on: May 29, 2016, 03:50:04 am »
Quote from: GrouchoTex on May 28, 2016, 10:29:21 pm
Got mesquite charcoal started. Going to grill some fajitas. Drinking a Shiner, cut up homegrown bell and jalapeño peppers to go with it.
No matter what, it is still the basics that matter, and why I love the Lone Star state. Now, if Trump or Clinton come after my pistols, truck, grill, or smoker, look out!

Seriously, a convention of states should be the order of the day, since D.C. Can't read the 10th amendment.
Barring that, secession.
I'd like to see COS before we actually seceded.
Just my mesquite-fajita-shiner-jalapeño induced opinion.

Very well said!
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Re: What's the plan, fellow Texans?
« Reply #51 on: May 30, 2016, 01:14:47 am »
EXPORT LNG as well as Crude Oil

Texas is uniquely positioned to become a leader in the next chapter in America's energy transformation due to our abundant natural gas supply, infrastructure and access to deep water ports. According to studies, LNG exports will create up to 155,000 Texas jobs in construction, operations, exploration and production by 2035 and contribute up to $31.4 billion to our local economies.
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Re: What's the plan, fellow Texans?
« Reply #52 on: June 01, 2016, 06:06:27 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on May 23, 2016, 01:20:01 pm
I think the judge is doing what he can.  The states have to start reasserting their Constitutional rights/duties.

Have to do so in unison.  38 states acting together is the ultimate authority in this country.

They can dissolve Congress, remove the President and boot the Supreme Court.

But they must act together.
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Re: What's the plan, fellow Texans?
« Reply #53 on: June 02, 2016, 03:05:16 pm »
http://www.conventionofstates.com/

I think we have to try this before we secede. I signed the petition and plan to volunteer.
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Re: What's the plan, fellow Texans?
« Reply #54 on: June 02, 2016, 03:54:35 pm »
Quote from: austingirl on June 02, 2016, 03:05:16 pm
http://www.conventionofstates.com/

I think we have to try this before we secede. I signed the petition and plan to volunteer.

I agree.  Let's do it.
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Re: What's the plan, fellow Texans?
« Reply #55 on: June 09, 2016, 11:28:22 pm »
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Re: What's the plan, fellow Texans?
« Reply #56 on: June 10, 2016, 12:22:31 am »
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Re: What's the plan, fellow Texans?
« Reply #57 on: June 10, 2016, 12:26:55 am »
Quote from: SquirrelCutter on June 09, 2016, 11:28:22 pm


My husband just got his stickers in the mail. I've seen a few more than usual recently when I go into Kerrville.
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Re: What's the plan, fellow Texans?
« Reply #58 on: June 10, 2016, 08:34:53 am »
Man these next two years...when I hit 20 and can drop my paperwork can't get here fast enough.  Can't really say one way or another on this till then LOL!
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Re: What's the plan, fellow Texans?
« Reply #59 on: June 10, 2016, 11:39:43 am »
Not a Texan, never even been there, but seems to me that Texas should focus on securing the border. Any other priority just prolongs the slow suicide IMO.
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Re: What's the plan, fellow Texans?
« Reply #60 on: June 10, 2016, 11:44:25 am »
Quote from: txradioguy on June 10, 2016, 08:34:53 am
Man these next two years...when I hit 20 and can drop my paperwork can't get here fast enough.  Can't really say one way or another on this till then LOL!

I can understand that.
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Re: What's the plan, fellow Texans?
« Reply #61 on: June 10, 2016, 11:45:00 am »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on June 10, 2016, 11:39:43 am
Not a Texan, never even been there, but seems to me that Texas should focus on securing the border. Any other priority just prolongs the slow suicide IMO.

That is correct.  It's the HOW that we're grappling with.
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Re: What's the plan, fellow Texans?
« Reply #62 on: June 12, 2016, 12:54:30 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on June 10, 2016, 11:45:00 am
That is correct.  It's the HOW that we're grappling with.

Perry had the right idea.  Send the 36th Infantry Division to the border.  But extended state active duty like that costs big $$$$$.
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Re: What's the plan, fellow Texans?
« Reply #63 on: June 12, 2016, 01:24:28 pm »
Quote from: txradioguy on June 12, 2016, 12:54:30 pm
Perry had the right idea.  Send the 36th Infantry Division to the border.  But extended state active duty like that costs big $$$$$.

True.  As much as the costs of rampant illegal immigration?
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Re: What's the plan, fellow Texans?
« Reply #64 on: June 12, 2016, 03:29:19 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on June 12, 2016, 01:24:28 pm
True.  As much as the costs of rampant illegal immigration?

Different kind of cost.  But still just as expensive. 
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Re: What's the plan, fellow Texans?
« Reply #65 on: June 12, 2016, 06:19:24 pm »
Quote from: txradioguy on June 12, 2016, 03:29:19 pm
Different kind of cost.  But still just as expensive.

I suspect RII (rampant illegal immigration) is MUCH more costly.  And, in many more ways.
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Re: What's the plan, fellow Texans?
« Reply #66 on: June 12, 2016, 10:49:16 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on June 12, 2016, 06:19:24 pm
I suspect RII (rampant illegal immigration) is MUCH more costly.  And, in many more ways.
One high cost has to do with importing measles and antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis as well as skin diseases and who knows what else, and then sending the illegal kids to schools in our towns.
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Re: What's the plan, fellow Texans?
« Reply #67 on: June 15, 2016, 03:20:53 pm »
Quote from: Just_Victor on May 17, 2016, 01:24:31 pm
The problem is going to be the effect on the real estate economy.  The driving force behind getting undeveloped land on the market is the property tax.  When land owners get sick of paying the taxes on unused land they unload it.  With no tax, most people probably wouldn't sell land because one can afford to just keep it and do nothing with it.  So the supply of land for sale dries up, and prices go through the roof.  Maybe if the state distinguished between residential and commercial/agricultural/industrial/undeveloped land for tax purposes.

I don't know.  The entire concept of property taxes means that the government owns all property and you are just renting it from them.  And I just really loath that.

Since property taxes only encompasses Real Estate and improvements to them,  that is not actually true. 

mineral property interests that remain undeveloped are untaxed. 
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