Is it a desireable thing? No.
But nobody seems to be able to come up with anything except "spending cuts" (nobody ever says where) or sales tax increases (which are just as onerous as a business tax).
The money to fund Texas schools has to come from somewhere, and it's not going to magically appear out of slot machines or lottery tickets (as Carole Keeton "Ma" Strayhorn advocates).
You won't get an answer. But this near atheist Wasp thinks slots and lottery tickets are Satan's work. They prey upon the poor and the addicted, and cause ever more to be addicted. It's evil. The issue causes some very recessive Calvinist genes in me to come out.