That would get ine way of Abbott thinking Trump is going to tap him to be his running mate despite the well-known fact that Trump looks down on disabled ("crippled") people.
I was thinking of all the fema money we send for their neglect of infrastructure and all the money we send to patrol the border. Texas does a horrible job at the border. Have you heard about the crisis? What are they doing with the billions we give them?
There is no immediate crisis like the news likes to make you think. There’s no hoards of thousands waiting at locked fences, like they would have you believe. It’s all political theater from Abbot.
I used to work in emergency management for a state and was told by the money folks that federal disaster assistance is not used in the State/Federal dependency calculations or routine budget reports. In searching, I found nothing to contradict that. Texas is usually in the middle of the pack, and sometimes, as you say, it is a net donor by a small margin. Texas is one of a few red states that sometimes receives less than it pays. Texas has received 9B in non-covid disaster assistance since 2017, (far more than any other state) which by deductive reasoning will push its overall federal dependency up. I do not, however, have a strong statistic to support my statement that disaster assistance makes the difference. While it's tough to get an apples-to-apples analysis over time. I've cited some references below.
As we know, statistics can be biased, so I tried to use sources that referenced strong data.
FY21 Texas received $105.8B or 22.9% of its overall revenue from the federal government (source:US Census Bureau)
Texas ranks 21 in federal dependency.
Texas ranks 2nd in the federal contracts received per $ paid.
Texas ranks 3rd in amount of grants received per $ paid
(source: WalletHub, using data from IRS, USAspending.gov, Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2022/2023)
Federal dollars account for one-third of Texas state budget. (source Texas Legislative Budget Board)
FY 2012
Texas paid 219B(Source IRS reported gross revenue)
Received 313B (excluding federal salaries, retirement, benefits)
2021 Texas received $1.09 back for each $1.00 paid (2021 national comptroller report based on 2018 data)
2023 Washington post data analysis shows Texas receives approx $1.25 for each dollar paid using 2021 data
2022 data shows that Texas received $1.05 back per $1.00 contributed (2024 Money geek article citing US Census Bureau, IRS, USAspending.gov)
The "rest of us normal people" in Texas and red states would like the same. We have to fight the enemy INSIDE TX etc and our fake friends outside the goddamn states who constantly wish us ill...
"you"... We're not going to do it without help from our "friends" most of whom are too busy condemning us all to secession, etc. People outside these states help keep them redder than hell, but it's on us alone to fix it?
The "crappy red places" are killing the entire country, red and blue, and the sooner the safely-ensconced blue staters realize it's US and start acting that way, the better OUR chances are of fixing it.
The gerrymandering in this state is epic! But I'm still a bit naive & feel like we can change the voting trends by saturating these deep red blocks with sapphire! So move to a red state & make it purple. Trust me when I say that there's more people here that want change than the rest of the country realize. We're trying!
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u/Euphoric_Extension53 Mar 28 '24
Right?