“There is no way Texas is red if they spend at a faster rate than the Federal gov “
Then they would be truly “in the red”, if you know what I mean.
If the chart is correct then Texas is fiscally conservative. Spending per person has declined while humanity floods into Texas.
This is not only illegal immigrants but us immigrants as well. California is number two on illegal immigration and it’s 50% less.
Texas is singlehandedly pushing the us economy forward. You can also thank us for making your gas a dollar cheaper per gallon.
You’re welcome.
But what is the “Per Capita” Rate?
Let’s break this down a bit shall we?
4.8 TRILLION - FED GOV
105 BILLION - Texas
Population:
US population - 316 million
Texas Population - 26 million
Per capita Spending:
USA - 15,190 per person
Texas - 4,040 per person
Yeah, Texas is a big spender...
Also those rates are also dictated by inflation as welll...
Also keep in mind theconomy of Texas is gropwing better than the US as well...
If Barry wants to give us the cash to support his illegal friends then by all means please do so.
The major difference is spending money Texas already took in, while still contributing to the rainy day fund. We are not going deep into debt. Yes, we have a growing population and a growing economy; that has increased our spending. But we are paying our bills while saving for the future.
Rainy Day Fund 101
http://www.window.state.tx.us/comptrol/fnotes/fn1102/
Don’t spend more than you have — that’s wise financial advice for anyone, but it’s a budgeting rule that Texas state government can’t break.
Right now, Texas lawmakers are grappling with the next state budget, for 2012 and 2013. They will consider how to spend revenues available from various taxes, fees and, perhaps, the Economic Stabilization Fund (ESF), Texas’ so-called rainy day fund.
This fund may provide some good news in tight budgetary times, as our state attempts to provide ever more-expensive services to a growing population.
Come January 2015, the Texas RINO lieutenant governor will be replaced as will the RINO House leader Straus. The lieutenant governor will DEFINITELY be replaced by a true conservative and Straus’ replacement should be a conservative unless something drastically goes wrong.
I don’t think that there are any truly conservative states that keep spending under control.
If you looked at the figures another way:
The 2001 expenditures represented 5.925% of the 2001 Texas GDP, and the 2013 expenditures represented 7.721% of the 2013 Texas GDP, an increase of 30% in the Texas state government’s take of the Texas GDP.
On the other hand, as the mix of state vs local spending has altered over the years, across the country, with states most often picking up more of some expenses that were once nearly all local - like K-12 education, the most often used comparison between states is in “state & local” government expenditures.
On data I got here:
http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/state_spend_gdp_population
and crunched in a spreadsheet, Texas “state & local” government ranked only 3rd, at 15.1987% of GDP after Wash.D.C. (13.5874%) and S.Dakota (13.9313%) as taking the smallest shares of a state’s GDP.
Strangely (to me), Alaska came in next to highest, taking in 25.5627% of GDP, which is just a tad lower than worse off Mississippi which spends 25.7443% of its GDP.
Using the data THAT way, Perry will be able to say, when it comes to state spending vs state GDP, Texas is still doing better than all but South Dakota & D.C. (not a real state).
You need to look at not only spending increases, but also comparisons with other states. Two years ago Texas was fifth LOWEST in per capita spending in the US. Their spending was a third, or so of the highest spending states.
This is pure bilge! The reason that Texas is spending this much is because everybody with any sense is moving there making Texas one of the only fast growing economies in the world. This ass hat would have you believe that Texans wipe their ass with the US dollar the same way the pirates and looters in Washington do. What a joke!