[Mulder]

Texas will go the way of California, it's already got the second highest budget deficit and poverty is being imported at extremely high rates. Someone has to pay and it can't just be the border tax-payers because they're maxed out.

Sadly, you are probably correct. For years, many immigrants adopted (or were indoctrinated) with Texan culture, but there are so many immigrants now that they simply bring their own third-world culture here. Just like they did in California.

In 10 years, it's entirely likely that Texas will have an income tax, strict gun control, and be considered a democratic stronghold like Kalifornia or New York is today.

All thanks to the treasonous immigration policies advanced by our politicans.

[Theodore R.]

Also, many outside TX do not know that TX already has quite high property tax rates! We pay property taxes to cities, counties, school districts, and community college districts as well. The highest taxes are to the public schools! In the Laredo city school system, this past Saturday voters approved a new property tax plan, 55-45 percent. Supporters said that this was a renewal and not "new taxes," but I do not know the details. Some people can't get enough taxation. They are tax junkies.

[El Laton Caliente]

I have a more optimistic view of Texas. The Kali crowd moving there has been mostly the conservative and 2nd amendment types. It usually doesn't take long to indoctrinate most foreign cultures to the "Texas Philosophy".

Oddly, it seems the most difficult to convert are the Muslims and Hindi. They keep to themselves for the first generation and seem to have little desire to acclimate outside of the working environment. It is mostly the second generation of those groups that take to the “Texan” attitude. (My high school girlfriend’s father was from Bombay, Avionics Engineer for the Military)

Most of the Orientals, especially the Koreans, pick up the “Texas” ideals almost at once. Europeans can take a few years but usually come around. The Hispanics convert right to the “Tex-Mex” and “Texas Cowboy” ways right off the bat.

A state income tax will never pass a vote in Texas. You would see a revolt first.