Things are very very bad in Texas

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21. Republicans in Texas vote on religious and culture issues, not competence.

The state is so gerrymandered that religious extremists have taken over the state legislature and all they care about is bathroom bills, getting rid of abortion even if it means closing all healthcare clinics for the poor who have no health insurance, and turning public education into anti-science theories and whitewashed history. Texas has the largest percentage of uninsured citizens in the country, one of the highest maternal death rates, and the lowest Medicaid use because of a strict earnings cutoff of $285 a week for a family of four. I’d like to know how families can live on $1140 a month!

The other thing Republicans care about is drawing business to Texas, mostly at the expense of property owners whose taxes pay for all the infrastructure needed and support the schools that the children of their employees will use of need to have built because of generous tax concessions where the businesses pay no property taxes for decades. Come to Texas to get a free ride if you’re a large enough business.

Republicans like to brag about the jobs, but then do nothing about gridlock on the freeways or the costs to homeowners of ever-increasing taxes to pay for tax concessions.