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> In fact, many states (such as Texas) have no income tax at all, yet they manage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis https://en.wikipedia.o
by tjr225 5y ago
> In fact, many states (such as Texas) have no income tax at all, yet they manage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis
- throwaway0a5e 5y ago>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis Now do California. Clearly high taxation doesn't correlate to stable electrical power. There's a handful of states without income taxes. They mostly manage just fine. Or about as fine as the states with income taxes. They raise similar revenues in other ways.
- tjr225 5y ago> Now do California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_California_electricity_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_California_ele... All I could find was this, the wikipedia article doesn't mention any deaths however, whereas it appears 70 people died during the Texas crisis this year. I'm aware of the rolling blackouts in the bay area least year as my employer was impacted but it seemed more or less livable due to their rolling nature. I live in a state without income tax. Its actually quite a shit show: https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2020/10/22/mark-harmsworth-west-seattle-bridge-repair.html https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2020/10/22/mark-har...
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- _-david-_ 5y agoBelieve it or not that was not due to taxes.
- tjr225 5y agoIf there was a greater tax base in Texas a more robust energy infrastructure could have been in place. However; their votership preferred to keep things as is. They suffered the consequences. This is very, very simple.