Could it be because at least half of our business community has built enterprises centered on the business model of sucking off the government teat? I subscribe to the Pittsburgh (Communist) Business Times whose pages are full of CEO’s and “entrepreneurs” who are always whining that “the government is not doing enough for ME!”
Plenty of corporate welfare and crony capitalism being practiced around the nation at the federal, state and local levels, and it's engaged by libs and so-called conservatives alike. Texas, of all places, is rife with it.