I work in a role that gets to see numbers. Texas is rolling in the cash. Property taxes are through the roof. We are just fine on the financial front... much better than most and vastly better than the feds.
“Property taxes are through the roof”-because of the artificially inflated values caused by Biden’s inflation, which included school taxes/fed-and people have had just about enough-contrary to what a lot of realtors and those in connected industries appear to believe, most of us working class folks are NOT made of money, especially outside major cities-so values are already falling here, with tax adjustments next, just like what happened in the Obamaeconomy.
Secession will undo a lot of that-no more payments to fedzilla to feed all the welfare queens, politicians’ dirty deals, etc-and if there are no more lobbyists, there are fewer deals that enrich the government contractors, etc-let bids be chosen on merit-not on hype from a hired lobbyist. As for school taxes-maybe people would have enough money to pay for tuition if there was no fed dept of education to crack a whip, tax everyone’s property into oblivion to fund useless crap like indoctrination of kids, segregation of kids, etc and call it “education” and make threats to not give the state “federal funds” aka known as OUR money-if we object to the crap.
We would have to make sure no fedzilla could ever be brought to life again-no Jurassic Park fed, ever. Just think how great it would be to not only pay less in taxes, but to actually have a say in where/how it is spent because there are rules for that...