Eventually, corporate America is going to figure out that Republicans are actually hurting their bottom line despite their constant call for lower taxes and lax business regulation. I don’t know how long it will take, but it looks like the tide is starting to turn.
The state’s GOP leadership has sought to attract transplants from other states to Texas, which it has cast as a pro-business, small government paradise: a place with no income tax and consistent local regulations and where parents’ rights in schools reign supreme.
The states billing themselves as “small government paradises” sure are keen on meddling in people’s personal medical and family affairs.
Small enough to fit in your bedroom, doctors office, and anywhere else you think is private
Small enough you can shove it up a vagina! Big enough to curtail rights of the entire population. Magically both.
The GOP has been forcibly taking over public schools in blue cities, despite the objections of local parents. You may remember recent stories from Houston about their school libraries being converted to detention centers and the boy whose locs kept getting him suspended, despite the being a state law which explicitly allows it.
Everything they say is a lie.
Yup the long term ramifications for these bans will be catastrophic for red states. Even a five percent drop in your women demographic is harmful because women are the true drivers of the economy. Those businesses should just move to blue states. Like there’s no reason Bumble needs to be in Texas.
State income tax is the big draw… or lack there of…
But maybe not if the offset in business hurts more than the tax.
higher than average property and sales taxes instead.
Those are paid by individuals, not businesses
Yeah but you can only squeeze the normies so hard until they just stop buying shit, and THAT hits the bottom line quite directly for businesses.
businesses in texas have a gross receipts-based franchise tax instead of a traditional corporate income tax based on net income or profit.
they also, of course, do pay property and sales taxes, just like individual people do.
Wait, businesses don’t pay property or sales taxes? Since when?
Ok ok they do, but property and sales tax incidence falls much heavier on individuals than businesses.
It’s kickbacks. Er… I mean… Incentives.
If it was just tax they’d incorporate in Delaware.
I would like to point out that Washington also has no income tax. While the east side of the state can be questionable culturally, the overall politics and especially on the west side are pretty progressive and mostly steadily improving over time.
Also, our infrastructure isn’t complete shit owned entirely by private interests.
Why are women the true drivers of the economy? I’ve never heard that before.
Here are some interesting stats:
https://girlpowermarketing.com/statistics-purchasing-power-women/
Gave any sources from a website not called girl power?
Literally every single sentence on that website has a source cited. What else could you possibly want? You want someone to read them for you too?
Literally every single sentence on that website has a source cited. What else could you possibly want? You want someone to read them for you too?
Even if he does, clearly that’s what girlpowermarketing.com has done for him already. 😁
Well, you see, instead of actually checking more than one link deep, I like to say “citation needed” so I sound smart while minimizing the economic impact of women.
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I generally agree with the idea that this may not give the full picture, but the majority of what’s on that page has sources linked.
It’s girl power marketing it’s even more clear of an agenda. They’re trying to sell you something.
Would you rather trust information from Forbes, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, MassMutual Financial Group, or the Consumer Electronics Association?
Good, because that’s where nearly all their sources are from. Click the links. Leads right to the primary source.
At least read the article before dismissing it out of hand.
First bullet from the link.
Women make up more than half of the U.S. population, and control or influence 85% of consumer spending
No. Just flat out no. Statistically, if the norm is to start at 50%, then the quoted number is way too much deviation to be statistically improbable. It does not pass the smell test.
Then I scrolled further down. Oh boy, that website is a misinformation gift box.
Women account for 85% of all consumer purchases:
91% New Homes
66% PCs
92% Vacations
80% Healthcare
65% New Cars
89% Bank Accounts
93% Food
93% OTC PharmaceuticalsI’m sorry, those assertion are just impossible. New home of $300k - $700k is purchase by women, alone? I stopped thinking after this and encourage all to stop believing something just because they “cited” their sources.
Only source that is trust worthy is US BLS, and this is the quote from the website.
Approximately 40% of U.S. working women now out-earn their husband.
Only relevant data point I can find is from https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/womens-databook/2022/home.htm
In 2021, women who worked full time in wage and salary jobs had median usual weekly earnings of $912, which represented 83.1 percent of men’s median weekly earnings ($1,097).
This is the usual “80 cents for a 1.00 dollar” that has been widely tracked for the last decade, between women and men workers. This tells me the girls power link is misleading on key statistics. As a personal note, the government never refers to “wife” or “husband”, so that immediate red flag this number was cherry picked and derived.
TL;DR - key figures shown on girls power marketing website does not pass smell test. Their “citing” is vague. Do not trust.
My opinion, websites like these hurt equality movement.
I’m reading a lot of “this can’t be true because I feel that it isn’t” in this reply. But I can’t go individually track down all the sources at the moment so I’ll give the benefit of the doubt for now.
The operative phrase is “or influence”. That 91% doesn’t sound so crazy if you sum up the cases of a woman solely buying a house, buying a house with her partner, or being asked if she likes the house before her partner purchases it.
That being said, I agree that it’s shitty to add a bunch of qualfiers to make the numbers more impactful, and the citations they provide are vague enough that they intend literally no one to dig into any of them (let me just read everything published by Forbes in 2019 lol). It’s just for show, even if there may be a grain of truth. But it is a marketing website; the spin should be expected.
I don’t know why people are arguing about this. Having and raising children is a huge amount of economic activity, and only women can do that. Plus most of the people getting college degrees today are women.
Even when women were mostly stuck as housewives, they still often managed the household budget as part of their “job” duties. That’s only become more the case as women have been granted more economic freedoms over time.
This is the plan.
Gain permanent senators and congressional seats, lose electoral college points.
Complain the system is rigged, attempt another january 6th in a couple of years.
Repeat until dictatorship is in power.
We live in a society where neoliberal logic is so normalized you can evaluate human rights by their effect on the economy and nobody bats an eye.
I view this as trying to speak the language the politicians understand.
The problem is, they do not care. They will happily burn everything down if it means women have fewer rights.
I think it’s less about women having fewer rights and more about white men having control. It amounts to the same, but the motive is different.
It’s less about control and more about votes and remaining in power. Conservatives voters are easily scared. All that needs to happen is to scare them into believing that there’s a democratic monster that is trying to turn America into a hellish deviant dystopia the only way to stop this is is to keep MAGA in power.
I guarantee you that the senators and lawyers couldn’t give two shits about control. They want power. They don’t need control over those that won’t vote for them to begin with. But in enacting these laws- they’re exerting their will upon those dumb enough to believe they’re needed.
It’s less about control and more about votes and remaining in power.
“Votes and remaining in power” is just using more words to say “control”.
The point is, they don’t care about controlling women. It matters little to them I think. They just want to manipulate their voters so they can keep fleecing America.
Nothing more.
I agree. But also adding in that they want control in their personal relationships.
I very much doubt they give a shit.
Up to 99 years in jail and $100,000 fine for aborting a fetus that is going to be delivered stillborn, and actual murderers get 10-15. Hmm.
People with money are going out of state in some way or another. You need to look at who this is punishing. Primarily the poor and people of colour. Often repeated and always true: the cruelty is the point.
I personally haven’t visited family in Texas for years, largely because of their slide into Christofascism.
In that case, Hall recalled to The Texas Tribune, her doctor advised her to sneak out of state.
Just saying that is a good way to get her doctor arrested in Texas. That ban ain’t going nowhere if the Supreme Court and Attorney General have anything to say about it. And they do. They have all the say.
They can’t arrest the Doctor, that’s unconstitutional. They can sue the Doctor under Texas law.
Pretty fucked but some docs are saying things like “the weather in Colorado is nice this time of year” HINT HINT.
Fuck Texas GOP and everyone who put them in control.
Go fash, lose cash.
Boycott all things Texas.
Notwithstanding but I have my doubts that this is in any way sincere. These assholes were more than willing to sell out women until their political donations sold out women.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/business/match-group-donations-dobbs-roe.html
and the US Women’s Chamber of Commerce? I mean I didn’t find anything right off the bat but I highly doubt that these bunch of assholes didn’t donate heavily to those assholes who caused this but as long as their business interests weren’t impacted.
They only cared once their bottom line started hurting. If they actually gave two fucks, they’d move the fuck out and take the jobs and employees with them.
why do conservatives care about this i don’t get it
Sort of a “Leopards Ate My Face” moment. Basically a bunch of Texas Conservatives are realizing that everything everyone told them would happen if they supported an abortion ban is happening, and now they can’t handle it.
Texas hears ya.
Texas doesn’t give a shit.
There are dozens of us! Dozens!!
