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Originally Posted by glowrock
You completely ignored my main point, which was that Texas' finances are nowhere NEAR as rosy as the state generally leads on. Municipal debt loads are staggering, and that combined with generally substandard infrastructure is leading to situations like we're witnessing with the power grid nearly going completely offline, not to mention severe flooding, etc... etc... etc...
Those who look to Texas as some bastion of financial solvency and a panacea of wealth are woefully misinformed.
Aaron (Glowrock)
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Got ya. I misunderstood you. My point wasn't that the state is in great financial shape, but that residents are better off there than here based on their taxation system etc.