My understanding of the term "neoliberal" doesn't include relentlessly lowering taxes or shrinking government. Maybe you mean "neoconservative" or "libertarian"

My understanding of the term "neoliberal" doesn't include relentlessly lowering taxes or shrinking government. Maybe you mean "neoconservative" or "libertarian"? To me, neoliberalism is better characterized as balancing market and non-market approaches to addressing social problems (more market-oriented than progressives, more comfort with government intervention than conservatives). Also, sorta weird to blame Silicon Valley attitudes for a failure of the Texas government. Yeah a couple of companies from SV are opening offices in Texas, but this problem has been at least a decade in the making and it's not like SV is a dominant force in Texas.