Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Texas also has a larger border with Mexico.........thus more aliens coming across leeching off the medical, welfare and educational systems down there.
I wonder if California whacked all the persons they could whack, like Texas, how much money they could save in the criminal justice system? I don't mean the questionable cases, I mean the slam dunk cases, such as: Richard Alan Davis and "The Sausage King of San Leandro." Both cases are as solid as they come; the sausage king case has the suspect ON VIDEO, shooting and killing three government inspectors. Neither of these "persons" should be breathing oxygen as we speak (text).
The judicial system needs revamping and death penalty cases should before a judge. If they are questionable, give em the full examination of the law. If they are obviously guilty; confessions, DNA, video evidence, etc. Take them out and put a bullet in their heads. I'll pay for the bullets.
If you don't like Texas fine, to each his own. However, there was no need to insinuate that Texans are half educated zombies who lack the economic sophistication necessary to understand something so fiendishly complicated and arcane as the "law of supply and demand" -not exactly brain surgery.
I would agree with you but numerous posts in this thread display an almost complete lack of back economic education. Perhaps I was a bit short and harsh but I assure you it was due to having to read these semi-educated mocking posts which missed the most obvious of things.
As for the illegal problem, well, California has the same issue likely even more intense as a percentage of population yet California manages to have half the childhood poverty rate and 1/3 the teen pregnancy rate. Maybe instead of having so many Texans gloating and posting inane posts attacking California those folks should look at their own much worse off glass house. Just saying.
Texas also has a larger border with Mexico.........thus more aliens coming across leeching off the medical, welfare and educational systems down there.
If you want to compare the numbers of illegals in Texas and California feel free but I assure you the number of illegals (and decedents of illegals) will be much higher in California because for most of the last 30 years there was simply more jobs and money in California. That's just a fact and one which doesn't help your argument.
Ehhh...perhaps, but in my many forays into the DFW area, i don't see it. What i see is sprawl, strip malls, shopping malls, cookie cutter houses, chain restaurants, and bad traffic...though it's not NEARLY as bad as Atlanta. Not to mention that DFW is the home of the 30k a year "millionaire." I've never seen so many people faking it anywhere else i've ever been...including California. There is a reason why so many Texans hate people from Dallas.
Gotta admit though..the food out there is pretty good. Not Louisiana good, but good enough.
Yeah, you'd know better what this area looks like than someone who has lived here for over 20 years...
Funny thing about those $30k millionaires...I wondered a long time about my neighbors and how many were faking it. Turns out almost NONE of them were (neighborhood income - over $300k/household). Fact is that a lot of people actually really do have money.
Yeah, you'd know better what this area looks like than someone who has lived here for over 20 years...
Funny thing about those $30k millionaires...I wondered a long time about my neighbors and how many were faking it. Turns out almost NONE of them were (neighborhood income - over $300k/household). Fact is that a lot of people actually really do have money.
LOL...Ok. No one who lives in a neighborhood where household incomes average around 300k a year would ever need to "wonder a long time" about their neighbors. It would be pretty obvious that everyone is loaded.
Amazing how everyone on C-D is so loaded. BTW...what did i say about Dallas that was inaccurate? The other Dallas resident basically agreed with me.
Texas doesn't collect a payroll tax, does it? At least i don't think they do. The only way the state gets revenue is sales taxes, property taxes and fees. I don't know how much business or corporate tax they get, but i'm no so sure that those tax breaks for businesses to relocate ever really pays off big. That's always just seemed like a boon for the companies and a rotten deal for the state.
One thing i do know...they tax the hell out of property. Everyone i know that lives there tells me it's brutal.
You can't just look at the tax rate. You have to look at the taxes PAID. When your house in TX costs significantly less than the same house in CA, you're paying less taxes.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
