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John Rice Carter: “You can stop your new neighbors and ask them why they came, and they will tell you because Texas is where things are…”

On the recordJanuary 24, 2011
You can stop your new neighbors and ask them why they came, and they will tell you because Texas is where things are happening. It is where you have a tax structure where we can prosper in business, and yet it is a fair tax structure. You are doing things right so that rather than throwing up roadblocks to new businesses, you are throwing up enhancements to make it easier for new businesses to come and prosper. Not the big monstrous refineries, the little bitty mom-and-pops. Some of those mom-and-pops are a chain of mom-and-pop stores that are all over the State and soon to be all over the Nation. Texas makes sure that we follow basic rules and we don't turn people loose, but we come up with methods where government and industry work together to solve problems.
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John Rice Carter
Republican · Georgia
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Jan 24, 2011

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Speaker Carter discusses Texas's business-friendly environment and its impact on small businesses.

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