While California is an economic disaster, Texas is doing well compared to the rest of the nation. Texas has proved a low tax, pro Business model can create good paying jobs and economic well being. California has gone the Socialist route and is an economic disaster.
AMERICA’S recent history has been a relentless tilt to the West—of people, ideas, commerce and even political power. California and Texas, the nation’s two biggest states, are the twin poles of the West, but very different ones. For most of the 20th century the home of Silicon Valley and Hollywood has been the brainier, sexier, trendier of the two: its suburbs and freeways, its fads and foibles, its marvellous miscegenation have spread around the world. Texas, once a part of the Confederacy, has trailed behind: its cliché has been a conservative Christian in cowboy boots, much like a certain recent president. But twins can change places. Is that happening now?
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America should follow the Texas model if it wants to provide good economic well being for its citizens.
Tags: California, Politics, Texas
