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Not nearly as moronic as using a list that lumps Austin with Des Moines and Topeka to prove (or in this case disprove) your point. If Austin is a one horse town, the rest of the cities on this list aren't even one of its testicles.
California's GDP dwarfs Texas GDP by a very wide margin yet Texas has the exact same deficit. That means California is fiscally in much better shape as it's deficit as a percentage of GDP is much better then Texas's. Even worse Texas has the worst air pollution in the country, the highest teen pregnancy rate in the country, the highest percentage of uninsured children, the highest percent of children living in poverty, one of the lowest college education rates.... Texas is pretty much one of the worst states in the country.
As for people "fleeing" California, yes lots of people want to live in California so the cost of property gets bid up. People who can't afford it move to some where they can afford (usually a less desirable place like Texas; the market has spoken and Texas sucks according to the market) even while ever larger numbers of rich people move to California because they actually can afford to live in such a popular and in demand place. Some of you, who are no doubt products of Texas's failed public schools, don't seem to understand supply and demand as it perfectly explains why property costs so much in California but is next to worthless in most of Texas.
As someone that left CA 6 months ago, to move to DFW, I have to disagree with you completely. Pollution - uh, have you been to LA? Teen pregnancy - how is that a measure of success or failure? Uninsured children - again, how is that relevant? Ah yes, college education, the holy grail of the libs - not much good it's doing those Californians because there are no jobs to be had.
Until you've lived in both places, you are hardly qualified to compare. The facts are that CA is dying on the vine. Businesses closing, unemployment lasting longer and longer, no jobs, high gas prices, people unable to sell their homes, and a tax hike being talked about. Texas may not be perfect, but except for the weather (which at the moment is way better than CA's), Texas is coming out the winner.
Yea...but you're obviously earning less too...a lot less, so it's all relative.
Not OBVIOUSLY. What makes you say that? The fact is, in my own case, my husband and I make exactly the same wages as we did in CA. With less state income tax that means we take home more.
Will conservatives admit Republican controlled Texas is as big of a failure as California?
Of course they won't. What they WILL do is try to paint this "financial crisis" as justification for all kinds of weird and whacked out right wing agendas.
They don't want to admit that California went into the ditch under a GOP governor, too.
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