Texas is the worst. Just ask CNBC.
This week the outlet published new rankings claiming “Texas is no longer a Top State for Business.” Texas has never fallen out of the top five in the history of the list and has finished first four times. Predictably, the leftwing media ran out of ink trying to gloat in the faces of conservative policymakers. See, we told you all those rightwing policies would chase everyone off!
So how far did Texas fall to be considered not a “top state?” Texas is sixth. It’s only better than 44 other states.
Guess we ought to pack it up, y’all. It was a good run.
Not so fast. CNBC is forced to admit Texas has an impressive economy, trailing only Florida. More jobs have been created here than any other state. Texas is tops in financing for small businesses and is only behind North Carolina in its quality of workforce.
CNBC cites legitimate concerns with the state’s infrastructure, including our power grid and water utilities, which certainly need to be reliable to attract businesses. But then the analysis careens off the road into a deep partisan forest.
Texas is dead last in “Life, Health, and Inclusion,” otherwise known as Abortion, Medicaid Expansion, and Transgender Issues. The leftwing authors don’t like our laws protecting taxpayers and kids (both born and unborn).
But Texans do. According to public surveys, a majority of Texans support restrictions on abortions and sixty percent support prohibiting doctors from providing hormone treatments, puberty blockers, and sex change surgeries for minors.
And while most Texans will say they support expanding Medicaid for low-income people, many more Texans prioritize the conservative approach of price transparency and lowering drug prices to make health care more affordable for everyone.
It appears non-Texans prefer what we’re doing here, too. Hundreds of thousands of people vote with their feet every year. Texas has five of the top fifteen fastest growing cities in the country. Major corporations are tripping over themselves to build facilities or move their headquarters to Texas.
Bloomberg recently reported 2.2 million people have moved to the southeast in the last two years, bringing $100 billion of new income with them. Meanwhile, places like New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, with “Life, Health, and Inclusion” policies CNBC adores, have lost $60 billion.
Maybe CNBC should be more honest with their rankings. Texas isn’t the worst. It’s just the worst for liberals.
Brian Phillips
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