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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
That wouldn't be as great a concern if it stayed in Texas, but the text book publishers don't want to publish one set of textbooks for Texas and another for the rest of the nation, and since Texas is so big and constitutes such a huge slice of the market share, as goes Texas, so goes the nation.
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That's exactly the problem, in mirror reverse. Is it ok to say, "as goes the rest of the nation, so should go Texas?" Because when you strip it down to the bare metal, that's the implication....
There's nothing to stop California, or New York or some consortium of states making the same stand as Texas,
forcing the textbook publishers to tune more than one set of textbooks or lose out on a major market, a market that may even be bigger than the Texas market.
But then you wouldn't be forcing people to follow the party line (sic).