So much so, Texas has dropped from the number one state for industrial growth to number 37. But efforts are underway to change things. It takes some very expensive equipment and 350 employees to produce 250 million computer chips each year at a manufacturing plant in Irving. Atmel Corporation is the last major industrial plant built in the state, and that was five years ago. Oklahoma got two of them and Texas got none.
Experts say it's our tax structure.
Brimer says it would generate enough taxes to support any impact on the school system, but still make Texas more competitive with other states. About 9 major states who can offer incentives have figured this out and their governors can do deals. He has no ability to offer job incentives, or tax incentives where all the other state fundings are done by the governors and they do deals in those states. Our governor can't do that under our current law structure. For those who want to move here or expand here, the Boeing Bill could be a blessing.