[houston1]

higher tax states like California subsidize lower tax states like Texas, unless you compensate for that it’s not an accurate comparison (CA could lower taxes if it got a dollar back for every dollar it sent to the feds instead of 78 cents)

[txhurl]

higher tax states like California subsidize lower tax states like Texas

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Even better. While TX is fixin’ up CA (kinda hard to tell if CA is a fixer-upper or burner-downer anymore?) we’ll pocket their taxes, too.