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Comrade Citizen

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7. Best state for business!

Reply to IrishBubbaLiberal (Original post)

Fri Apr 25, 2025, 05:47 PM

Apr 25

Corporations can pay the lowest wages and provide terrible benefits.
Federal funds help the millions of impoverished workers and the underfunded medical system survive.
Megacorps can use the good Texas highways paid for by the Feds.
Texas can give property tax breaks to megacorps.

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Red Republican Texas is a freeloader state, took $71.1 billion from other states. [View all] IrishBubbaLiberal Apr 25 OP

And California is the 4th largest economy in the world. tinrobot Apr 25 #1

Texas is one of the broke-@$$ $hithole states... NewDayOranges Apr 25 #2

I'm no longer interested in anything Newsom has to say. (nt) Paladin Apr 25 #3

K&R Blue Owl Apr 25 #4

CA nion here zorbasd Apr 25 #5

Texas has LONG been a backward state. Republicans turning state into a cesspool IrishBubbaLiberal Apr 25 #6

Best state for business! Comrade Citizen Apr 25 #7

States don't pay taxes, individual residents do MichMan Apr 25 #8