alt Hacker NewsAll true. Texas worker environment is not great though. Folks typically list income tax as an advantage but property and sales taxes more than make up the difference. Also, govt admin is fairly hostile to any infrastructure expansion, preferring to let the local car dealers buy new town charters with no infrastructure.
Environmental regs are not well managed generally.
Anyhow, not the worst state, not the best. Pretty balanced economy, like Ohio, Illinois, California, and Georgia.
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> preferring to let the local car dealers buy new town charters with no infrastructure.
I'm curious what this is referring to.
> Folks typically list income tax as an advantage but property and sales taxes more than make up the difference.
No, not really. Texas is still below average state taxes and you can see the breakdown of each state here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_income_tax#/media/File:S...
You can always move somewhere else. It's a big country with different state laws for every type of preference.
Higher property taxes and low income taxes is preferable actually, it keeps the housing market from getting massively distorted.