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Originally Posted by viewguysf
Red states usually don't want to raise necessary taxes to fund anything. Look no further than the teacher strikes and protests in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kansas, Kentucky, and Arizona. If California is viewed as an f'ing joke by some people, they should seriously consider moving elsewhere in order to make more room for those who want to be here.
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I am from Oklahoma and still follow it and Texas closely. You are completely wrong about your assumption that red states don't want to raise taxes to fund things. It happens in Oklahoma almost every year. Sure, you have your anti tax crowd, but that is the case in California too.
Oklahoman's are fed up and a recent sooner poll showed that the majority of Oklahoman's favored tax increases to fund education.
https://soonerpoll.com/news9newson6-...pport-walkout/
In this link, you will see Oklahomans(more specifically ones that are republicans)support the teachers walkout and even supported them getting even more money after they were given a raise. In OKC voters overwhelmingly voted to keep higher taxes in place to fund more transit and road infrastructure. Same thing with my hometown of Edmond.
In that link I gave you, it even shows the majority of Oklahomans oppose the Coburn's tax increase repeal bill, kind of like the one that is circulating through California to repeal the gas tax, one that I oppose at that because I don't think money generated by cars should be going towards transit, or at least the amounts of it that are going towards transit. But that's a whole different discussion.
Oklahoma got a shitty deal anyways with their education system and that is something that needs to be worked. I am in no way saying Oklahoma is a good government model. You won't need to look any further than me to find someone who is very quick to criticize the state and its conservative ways. But red states up taxes all the time to fund projects and construction, most of it is just for roads.