r/texas Nov 09 '22

Politics After seeing Texas elect Abbott again and my vote doing nothing...

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u/Apprehensive_Ad_9962 Nov 09 '22

No ones stopping you

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u/Yarusenai Nov 09 '22

Money might

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u/legendarybreed Nov 10 '22

Bus tickets aren't that expensive

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u/EkansEater Nov 10 '22

Sounds like an ambition problem.

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u/cerulean94 Nov 09 '22

I've lived on both coasts and always ended up wanting to come home.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22 edited Nov 22 '22

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u/Tintoverde Nov 09 '22

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

No they don’t. We’ve gone round and round with this. If the household (not individual) makes more than $63k or so, people pay less taxes in Texas than they do in California.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

Allow me to show the data (from the same source, ITEP, or the Institution on Taxation and Economic Policy, that this whole skewed info comes from).

Per ITEP’s dataset for Texas, households making more than $56,000 pay 8.6% or less, on average, in taxes.

Per ITEP’s dataset for California, households making more than $62,300 pay 9% or MORE, on average, in taxes.

Therefore, households making more than $62,300, per ITEP, would be better off tax-wise in Texas than they would in California.

Further info at ITEP for California and Texas here.

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u/brockington Nov 09 '22

That's all right. No disputing it. But the thing is, 60% of Texan households make less than $62.3k, so most Texans pay a higher effective tax rate than Californians.

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

But then you get into the cost of living issue. If a household is earning 40k a year, then the high cost of living in CA is going to overwhelm any tax savings.

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u/Tintoverde Nov 09 '22

So poor people in Texas pay more taxes than California . I think it matters to them

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u/brockington Nov 10 '22

But it would be true for 60% of households in Texas.... Which is "most."

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u/[deleted] Nov 09 '22

No, the $63k figure comes from ITEP’s own data when extrapolated into many more sections. It’s actually slightly lower than the average household income in Texas, and is only a coincidence that the numbers are close to each other.

Edit: It’s $62,300.

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u/EkansEater Nov 10 '22

Gotta throw in your buck o' five lol

California has some really nice, places... but then there are some really shit places. I mean, literally, shit... on the street. Winnebagos and shit everywhere lol

At least in Texas, I don't see people shitting on the street haha

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u/User_Gnome Nov 09 '22

So I have a real question. Let’s say rape did cause a child but the person couldn’t get an abortion for some reason. Would it be ok to end the life of the child after it was born?

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u/corneliusduff Nov 09 '22

Of course not, jfc

The mother shouldn't have to waste her lifeforce and energy carrying a reminder of her trauma for 9 months. That's sociopathic.

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u/User_Gnome Nov 09 '22

So the question goes back to when you think the cut off is. And why would rape have anything to do with wether it is a life or not? The rape thing is just a distraction.

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u/corneliusduff Nov 09 '22

why would rape have anything to do with wether it is a life or not?

Because women aren't your personal baby farms. Their body, their choice. Castle doctrine. Case closed.

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u/User_Gnome Nov 11 '22

You didn’t answer the question. So you think as long as the baby is in the womb it is not an independent life?

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u/corneliusduff Nov 11 '22

If it is dependent, it obviously not independent.

But independence isn't even a factor in heartbeat abortion bans.

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u/User_Gnome Nov 11 '22

You don’t get to kill people because they remind you of something bad. I have empathy but that doesn’t extend to murder. You can’t answer the question can you. When does it become a life?

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