Texas Invites Washington Based Businesses

If Washington Democrats succeed in passing I-1098, Texas is eager and willing to accept businesses it will drive away.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has sent letters to around 90 top employers and a few business associations in Washington urging companies worried about taxes to head on over to his state.

"As the State of Washington considers a multibillion-dollar tax increase for citizens and businesses ... I invite you to consider your future in America's new land of opportunity: the State of Texas," Perry wrote.
"If Washington doesn't want your business, Texas does. Texas has no personal income tax and no interest in getting one."
The letter was passed on to me by Bryan Mistele, the president and CEO of INRIX in Kirkland, who opposes I-1098, the proposal on the Nov. 2 ballot that would create an income tax for the state's wealthiest residents. Mistele said in an e-mail that he got a letter from Idaho as well awhile back, but no longer had a copy of that letter. Idaho sent out letters earlier in the year when the state Legislature was taking up tax increases.