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Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by novok on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @01:31PM (#19503413)
That as about as likely as introducing an income tax in Texas.
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Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by dsfyu404ed on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @02:01PM (#19503887)
With the hordes of rats fleeing a certain sinking ship of a state on the west coast anything is possible. Texas might not be Texas in 20yr.
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Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by thechao on Thursday March 28, 2019 @08:57AM (#19511700)
The Texas constitution is written in such a way to provide defense-in-depth against an income tax, or any tax that even looks like an income tax. I don’t even think you’re allowed to file a bill with lege council that lets you file a bill to pass an amendment to remove the wording that prevents income tax—that sort of thing. You’d for sure get sued, and there’s no way the reps would keep their jobs.
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Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by readittwice on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:44PM (#19505153)
What do you mean with that? Honest question, I am not from the US.
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Re:If You Can’t Afford the Rent, It’s My Problem, Too by lotsofpulp on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @03:59PM (#19505332)
That so many people from California will move to Texas over the next 20 years that it will change the voting population’s habits and Texas will get a state income tax.
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