Press Statement: Jobs aren’t created at job summits: Look to Texas for Answers

For Immediate Release: Dec. 2, 2009
Contact: Cindy Mallette, (512) 476-5905

Jobs aren’t created at job summits:
Look to Texas for Answers
Commentary by Peggy Venable,
Texas Director, Americans for Prosperity Foundation

The Obama Administration should look to Texas for ways to create jobs. While jobs aren’t created at job summits, businesses large and small look for certainty in taxation and regulation.

Instead, the Obama Administration and Congress are considering two of the biggest tax bills in history in the health care reform and the cap and trade legislation. And federal government debt has hit $12 trillion.

While Texas has created more jobs than any other state in the country, and touts creating more jobs last year than all other states combined, and has a rainy day fund of over $8 billion, officials in the Obama Administration will be convening a jobs summit.

We in Texas could have saved them the effort. Washington officials should look to Texas to see that tort reform, lower taxes, limiting government growth and debt, and common-sense regulations open the door to job creation.

Texas is No. 1 in the country for job creation and is the No. 1 state for business relocation. For the first time in history, Texas has more Fortune 500 companies than any other state. Texas also is named as the No. 1 state for tort reform.

We have good news in Texas, which also includes having been named the top state for government spending transparency.

So as the jobs summit is convening in Washington, D.C., Americans for Prosperity recommends that Congress and the Administration look to Texas for ways to boost job creation and improve the economy.

AFP Foundation-Texas has created a website www.GoodNewsInTexas.com which lists some of the ways Texas is No. 1 in the country.

Rather than holding summits, Washington officials should look to Texas for ways to create jobs and improve the U.S. economy.

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Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is a nationwide organization of citizen leaders committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom and opportunity. AFP believes reducing the size and scope of government is the best safeguard to ensuring individual productivity and prosperity for all Americans. AFP educates and engages citizens in support of restraining state and federal government growth, and returning government to its constitutional limits. AFP has more than 700,000 members, including members in all 50 states, and 24 state chapters. For more information, visit www.americansforprosperity.org