My friend:
You should checkout this Texas Tribune post: Texas is on the Brink. Our great state is at the top of some pretty important lists, and they aren’t good lists to be on top of. Clearly, if these statistics are correct, there are some serious problems with Texas.
One major possible reason could be the large immigrant population. Texas is estimated as having the second largest illegal immigration population in the country. That, at least, would seem to indicate one of the reasons tax revenue is so low, poverty is so high, and benefits are spread so thin. However, before we all go screaming about building a bigger wall, we need to think about a few things.
Texas also has the second largest population and the second largest economy. Though focusing on rankings is arbitrary, it would still seem like Texas should be able to offset its immigrant population. Texas, hailed the economist cheerleaders, weathered the recession storm better than any other state.
Today, this is all guess work. Hopefully this list will be interesting enough that we’ll see more discussion on it and the reasons for these numbers will be more apparent.
Immigration? Regressive Policies? Low Taxes? What do you think?
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