Pursuits
Texas Is All for Free Enterprise – Until the Lawmakers Show Up
Tesla's Push to Sell Cars to Texans Gets the Boot
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Rick Perry and other Texans like to brag about their free-market, no income-tax, pro-business state. Then the legislature rides into Austin and messes with the talk.
It happened in the session that ended Monday, with even the deep pockets of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. failing to summon enough lobbying power to overturn a law forbidding publicly traded companies from selling liquor.