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Originally Posted by vaughnmr
Actually, our state IS near bankruptcy.
I had a lot of respect for you before that comment, now you make it sound like the problems with my area don't matter. These issues are important to me.
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"You have the right to your own opinion, but not your own facts."
Here's a nice graphic representation of the 50 state's credit ratings as of June 2009.
http://www.in.gov/ifa/files/StateCreditRatings.pdf
It doesn't show Texas near bankruptcy.
Let's get this straight. You want me to pay taxes for bicycle paths I will never use, nor have any interest in, because
you demand them? And because the government doesn't make me pay for these paths, by not building them, Texas is an evil place to live?
Have I got this straight?
If this is how you judge government, there are other states with governments much more congenial to you views, and no restriction whatsoever about emigrating to them. I do not demand they change to meet my requirements, I merely wish to have a state where my views are implemented. I think of state laws and governments as a buffet from which one is able to choose the sort of government one likes, no matter what one likes.
I do not view a government as a nanny, giving everybody what they want. I view government as a necessary evil, to provide the required framework for a civil and peaceful society, providing such public goods as the majority of people find useful and prudent for said society and are willing to pay for.
In general, that is what Texas government does....