[FITZ]

Hopefully a state income tax won't pass, but it will soon because there are some fast demographic shifts occurring in Texas, the southern counties have extremely fast population growth due to immigration and they want equal living standards, free health care, free education and the rest. The voters in the southern counties are democrats.

[Republic of Texas]

If we simply cut all the socialist welfare crap, we'd have a budget surplus. (And we'd drive away many who came here for THAT reason) Sadly, as has already been mentioned, we are being overrun by poor socialists from the south who come here for one thing - handouts.