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Which makes the decision not to fund things like public transit even more ridiculous. But then again, Texas refused to deploy its literal rainy day find when Ha
by LapsangGuzzler 3y ago
Which makes the decision not to fund things like public transit even more ridiculous. But then again, Texas refused to deploy its literal rainy day find when Harvey hit, so it really shouldn’t be that surprising.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> > It's a myth that they pay low taxes in Texas. > Which makes the decision not to fund things like public transit even more ridiculous. No, Texas still collects far less taxes and has less money to spend, but at similar income levels, people (outside of the very high end of the distribution) pay higher taxes in Texas. California has more strongly progressive taxes and California has a higher income population, so it can collect a lot more total taxes (per capita, it has the #3 tax revenue per capita of the 50 states + DC) despite people at or below (and up to a fair amount above) US median income paying less in taxes than people making the same amount would in Texas.