Individual Texans get a check from the minerals rights they lease. Mineral rights are individual owned and can be sold separate from the surface land in Texas and many other states.
If every state could go to the Alaskan model, it could turn the whole country around.
If you want to take individual owned mineral rights from the individual owners, Texas or elsewhere, you better come prepared for a fight.
True, that. Unfortunately, those without will all envy those with, and nowadays, try to use the Government to 'get their fair share'--even though they'd fight against that just as hard if the roles were reversed. I think envy feeds liberalism...