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      While there is no income tax, property taxes are typically the way Texas makes up for that revenue and are higher than other states (9th highest). Which is why places like Houston have been irresponsibly developed into floodplains.

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        That’s why states with no income tax are a scam. Ditto Florida. Not to mention the dearth of social services.

  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.world
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    In 2024 Texas’ general results in the Presidential election were:

    • Donald Trump - 6,393,597 - 56.2%
    • Kamala Harris - 4,835,250 - 42.5%

    Kerr County, the place this article is about, swung proportionally harder:

    • Donald Trump - 21,615 - 76.8%
    • Kamala Harris - 6,315 - 22.4%

    Source

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    “There are so many different things that are wrong. For instance, FEMA sucks.”

    Despite what right wing media claims, FEMA, when not under the thumb of a GOP idiot, does a fine and admirable job in most cases.

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      In general the federal government is actually more efficient than most corporations. It’s just that when the government does mess up, everyone points a spotlight on it and screams their head off, but when corporations fuck up massively, the corporate owned media does everything they can to sweep it under the nearest available rug.

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        They’re also accountable and have to do work that a corporation wouldn’t do. Sure, the US postal service costs a lot of money to run to some remote locations, but a corporation just fucking wouldn’t. Yeah, you can save some expenses by not doing the job to completion. Is that really what we want to measure though? Is profit the goal, or is doing the best job possible the goal?

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          USPS was actually profitable, and still is. The Republicans in Congress just wrote a rule in the '00s that they have to have their pension fund stocked at a 300% level, like no corporation has ever had to do.

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            Profitable, but not as profitable as it could be. I personally don’t think it should be profitable though, but they’re required to by stupid Republicans, and those same people stop them from doing things that make them profitable so they can eventually privatize it.

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        Corporations have (theoretically) one person who makes the decisions. Anyone who disagrees is shown the door.

        Governments are led by thousands of competing interests. Once a decision is finally made, everyone who disagreed actively tries to undermine their opposition rather then work together.

        It is incredible to believe that on average corporations cannot compete against that level of internal conflict.

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          Co-ops also outperform sole ownership corporations, while having all the “downsides” of bureaucracy. It is incredible to believe that dictatorships outperform collective democracies.

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    It’s strange how there’s inadequate flood warning systems in place for an area where they keep voting against taxes and doing everything they can to avoid paying them.

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    Have they tried Picking themselves UP by Their Bootstraps? THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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    Well, the government cannot afford to help lowly people. They need all the money they can get their hands on for the tax breaks for the rich. Your suffering helps the state to achieve this worthy goal!

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    Tragic, now maybe you’ll learn from Karma and start trying to make Texas less of a third world shithole.