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Originally Posted by tony286
Texas has no state income tax. Texas takes more than they give. I know your pundits say other wise but there are little stupid things your gov does that you dont think about. Like the food or medicine you take is pretty safe that's not magic. When you fly chances are you are going to not crash. This all costs money and just doesnt fall from heaven. Another one is texas banks would no longer be federally insured. That whole nasty liberal thing so you dont lose all your money if a bank goes under. I can go on and on. They want to go they should let go. Its a good time for this, puerto rico voted to become a state. So then the number stays the same and we dont have to change all the flags. Texas is saving us money already.
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Texas doesn't have an income tax because sales, property and other use taxes generate more than enough revenue to cover services (police, fire, medicaid, CHIPS, etc).
Air traffic control is paid for by airports out of funds they receive from airlines. The airlines charge passengers to cover fuel, airplane costs, employee salaries and all the various fees they pay for things like air traffic control and people to load / unload baggage. Even the radar and other equipment used at each airport is paid for by that airport from local fund sources.
Where did you get the idea that State Income Taxes have anything to do with Federal budgets, anyway>? State income taxes remain within the budgets for those states and have no impact at all on any funding collected from the Federal government. The closest you can even get to Federal money going to states would be Defense spending. Even the favorite example of highway funding is complete BS. The huge amount of taxes you pay for gasoline is supposed to be earmarked to pay for roads / highways.
The Federal government is a business. It takes in far more money than it pays out despite all the song and dance BS they give you about the national debt. That debt is an artificial creation of a group of private banks who managed to take over the issuance of currency from the government. They don't do it as a charity, believe that shit.
I think you'd be really surprised how little money actually comes back from the Federal government to the public.
Most of your tax dollars go to mandatory entitlements (social security, welfare, etc). Even if you move to the UK and renounce your citizenship you can still collect your SSI, retirement, etc from the US govt. Check into it if you don't believe me.
The rest of the majority of taxes collected go to the Federal Reserve banks to service the interest on the national debt.
The truth is that some States in this country could actually become stand alone countries and the taxes paid by the public would still be less for the same or more benefits than they currently pay to the IRS.