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This is a retarded criticism that would only ever go unquestioned on an echo chamber like twitter. The federal government collects a shitload of money from Texas. If Texas was independent and that federal tax money went into their own coffers, they would already have what they need. The federal government collects tax money in order to be able to provide disaster assistance to the states, so of course Texas needs to ask the feds to get some of their own money back when they have a natural disaster.
So soory, Texas is a well known negative state that takes more from the Feds than it pays in taxes. https://rockinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/1-22-20-Balance-of-Payments.pdf Guess who is No. 1 in giving but not taking? New York Pointing fingers at folk for being retarded still leaves three fingers pointing back at you.
It's bizarre that you believe that the fact that the feds spend $275 billion in Texas means that Texas wouldn't be able to deal with this on their own if they kept the $262 billion of tax revenue that gets paid to the feds. The quality of your arguments has seriously fallen off since Biden became president. It's almost like your account got handed off to some intern that has never discussed politics before except on reddit.
Straw man argument much? I said no such thing and firmly believe that there's plenty of bootstraps for Texas to hoist, just pretending they are not a bunch of "takers" now is naive.
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