A few facts and figures about the Texas economy myth...
Let's start at the point on which Texas economy mythologizers brag. Texas collects less tax revenue per capita than 43 other states. Texas spends less money per capita than 47 other states. Those are facts.
Now let's look at some other facts: in 2011, 18.5 percent of Texans lived in poverty. That's 4.6 million Texans. Texas has a higher unemployment rate than 35 other states. Texas has more women living in poverty than 46 other states.
Texans shouldn't be talking about the IQ of others, when they live in a state with the lowest graduation rate in the country.
Texas spends less money on education than 42 other states, despite having the most students enrolled in public schools. With that combination, it's no wonder at all that Texas has the lowest graduation rate in the country. A huge component of our poor economic status is our dismal school system. Imagine how much worse that problem will be when all 18-35 year olds grew up in this education system. And then all 18-50 year olds. That is a very, very ugly picture. We also spend less than 45 other states on health care, and we have the most uninsured per capita in the nation. See the trend?
That is a whole state of stupid.
Here's a few more
Texas tidbits...
Another thing that's pretty fucked about Texas, is the poorest Texans pay 4 times the the tax rate than the richest Texans do.
And most of the Texas economic growth, is minimum-wage jobs.
And since Texans like to suck the big corporate dick, they have the worst environment in the country.
Texas is just a fucked up state, with a fucked up idiot population, that couldn't spell "cat" if you spotted them the 'c' and the 'a'.
The only good thing that ever came out of Texas was Stevie Ray Vaughn and Earl Cambell.
