Texas is over 22 million (85% of which live in metropolitan areas) and not even close to having a state income tax.
You will have it within ten-years (I'll guesstimate probably within six-years) if your population keeps growing like it has been.
. . . . unless the government has some other outrageously lucrative source of income.
But even then, you will have it--if for no other reason than to redistribute wealth.
Funny, but Potlatch posted the following: "Texas is still pretty conservative, especially outside the big citys."
Sounds to me like 85% of Texans are living in liberal surroundings--the densely populated cities.
But just keep rejoicing at your ever increasing population density.
It is obvious there is no correlation between places of high population density and liberalism.
Yet when I compare the population densities of U.S. counties that went for Gore to those that went for Bush in the last election:
Gore: 127,000,000 million people in 575,184 sq. miles = population density of 220 people per Square Mile
Bush: 143,000,000 million people in 2,432,456 square miles = population density of 59 people per Square Mile
I might be forgiven for concluding that the greater the population density, the more votes for candidates like Gore.
As I said, with increasing population density, comes more liberal thinking.
And if population growth from immigration does not cease, Texas will soon have an income tax.
This is only the beginning: