Texas Gov. signs game developer tax break bill into law

I stopped taking him seriously when I learned that he was from Texas.

So if it happened, would that make buying games from Texas the equivalent of importing?

I say let em go.

Hell no don't let them go, That would be a huge sign of weakness for the US. Other states might then decide to do it until the whole country falls apart as well.

what we should do is let them sit there until they can't take it any longer and try to do it by force, then turn texas into a crater, a barren wasteland uninhabitable by human beings due to radiation. This would be pretty tough to pass through and might solve part of the immigration problem as well. Lets see any other states try this crap after that goes down.

PLEASE don't take this comment seriously.

Or, stop trying to treat the United States as a single nation and start treating it like states that, ya know, united together and not like convenient administrative districts. Maybe trying to tell 320 million people to live and do the same thing is stupid and it's a good idea to have 50 different states, each with a different environment, so people can pick a place to live that suits their needs and wants. If it wasn't for chumps along the two coasts trying to tell the middle how to live their lives, we wouldn't have these problems. Massachusetts can have its social security and universal health care and Texas can do what it wants. Even better, when one of them fails, it doesn't infect everyone else.

Didn't a civil war happen last time that was tried? "Among other factors of course."

It's obvious whats going on here, the governor is racist and can't stand the fact that obama is president...

@LaughingTarget

Exactly. If MA would stop trying to raise taxes or creating new taxes, I wouldn't be making plans to move to FL.

Folks, got this new ointment. It says "apply liberally." So basically what I did was avoid the problem areas and call everyone a racist.

"If it wasn't for chumps along the two coasts trying to tell the middle how to live their lives"

Sorry, but this is total BS. The coasts rake in most of the tax dollars and the middle states get the largest payouts from those tax dollars. They can shut up or they can pay for their own infrastructure like roads and bridges and schools and emergency relief when the Mississippi floods or that tornado rolls through.

http://www.nemw.org/taxburd.htm

which is pointless .

do something useful . is the shoreline where hurricane Ike hit fixed 100%? I didn't think so.

wow, you should seriously work on your grammar and spelling skills before you try to make a case that you're better than anyone else.

Yes, we do know our shit compared to Californians. Thank you.

Yeah and thats why California's economy is blooming. Oh wait

Cali has the highest douchebag - normal person ratio.

Epic Californian fail. Delicious.

East Coast FTW.

East Coast all the way!

America would be great if it weren't for all the Americans everywhere.

Don't Mess With Texas! kthxbai!

Wow N-Zero, you've shamed us Californians...

Not that I approve of the death penalty, but you ought to see how many people Rick Perry's sent to the grave via lethal injection before talking about who's going to terminate who.

YAY DEATH PENALTY.


...Wait, wut?

Matt, that's a pretty hilarious retort. I have an image of Governor Perry with a syringe putting criminals to sleep.

Hey, I love video games, too--but you really need to pick up a book, kid.

Yeah, and the Titanic was one of the top ships in the world, but it still sunk. If your state's on the verge of bankruptcy, STFU.

yeah that was 2007, our state isn't going bankrupt like yours

As long as you guys can manage to legalize weed, more power to ya.

California used to be called the 5th largest economy in the world. It's slipped to the 10th. The key advantage of this is California's population, based on a per-capita calculation, California is somewhere in the middle of the pack of US states. It may produce a lot, but only because it's a big state, not because there's something special about doing business in California. Cali used to have a good business environment, but through major tax increases to cover all the social services the state wants to offer, it is no longer considered a business friendly environment and is losing businesses. California has gone from a tax donor state (a state that pays more Federal taxes than recieves in benefits) to a tax recipient state over this timeframe as well as has a 10.1% unemployment rate.

Texas, on the other hand, has had an economy that has grown faster than California's and during this economic "crisis", seems to be weathering quite well. Texas is still a tax donor state and has a low unemployment rate of 6.7%.

Of course Texas is angry. States like California, which burden themselves and by proxy, the nation, with stupid laws, regulations, taxes and "services", are making it hard for Texas to function. Since TX isn't getting hammered like everyone else, they'll be bound to foot a greater and greater percentage of the budget, which predominantly goes to states that are not called Texas but are called New York or California.

California was a great place, 30 years ago. Today it's a huge mess and a prime example of what not to do on a national level but what America is going to do anyway.

California still has one of the largest International shipping ports and some of the biggest fishing fleets. It's impact on the nation is huge.

There seems to always be a lot of pointless competition. Hell, where taught in school to hate the other rival schools and everyone in them simply because they where zoned for that school.

You know there's a reply function, right?

I think you have a case of swine flu get that check. Your state is in DEBT get that through your head

Hello 11.2% unemployment rate as of March 09,

How is Nancy Pelosi doing?

Love,
6.7% unemployment rate as of March 09.

PS. Keep your California refugees out of Austin / SA / DFW / Houston.

PPS. Earthquakes, can you has them?

"the people I want to reply to don't have it enabled lol"

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You click the reply button under the first post, in this case, YOUR post. So to reply to this comment, you click the reply button right there under the post you made that this comment is in response to.

Simple, no?

OMG!!!!! I have been wondering how it worked lol jajajajaja that means I have alot of replies that I have made that have been sent to the wrong person lol. Thx Zertoss though super help

You are an idiot. Good day sir.

well said

No.

90% of America has just lost their fucking minds, and seem to think Bush is still in the White House.

That's about it....