By Bill Kidd, Central Bureau ChiefTexas Gov. Rick Perry returned last week from California – a state with high taxes that requires businesses to provide workers’ compensation coverage – to his home state – which has low taxes and doesn’t require employers to carry workers’ compensation insurance.Normally, those facts would be as newsworthy as reporting that “Stalin is still dead.”But Texas’ status as the only state that allows employers to become “nonsubscribers” an opt out of the workers' compensation system became the targ...
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