Ya sure. There's more to Texas out there in reality, beyond what you see inside your bubble. That is, if you believe in science and statistics. Tax cuts are more than slogans, they have real consequences. Out here we recognize that our taxes are the price we pay for better lives - for everyone here.
Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world, study finds As the Republican-led state legislature has slashed funding to reproductive healthcare clinics, the maternal mortality rate doubled over just a two-year period "The rate of Texas women who died from complications related to pregnancy doubled from 2010 to 2014, a new study has found, for an estimated maternal mortality rate that is unmatched in any other state and the rest of the developed world. ... September issue of the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology ... maternal mortality rate in the United States increased between 2000 and 2014, even while the rest of the world succeeded in reducing its rate. Excluding California, where maternal mortality declined, and Texas, where it surged, the estimated number of maternal deaths per 100,000 births rose to 23.8 in 2014 from 18.8 in 2000. ... the report singled out Texas for special concern, saying the doubling of mortality rates in a two-year period was hard to explain in the absence of war, natural disaster, or severe economic upheaval. From 2000 to the end of 2010, Texas's estimated maternal mortality rate hovered between 17.7 and 18.6 per 100,000 births. But in 2014 it was 35.8. No other state saw a comparable increase. In the wake of the report, reproductive health advocates are blaming the increase on Republican-led budget cuts that decimated the ranks of Texas's reproductive healthcare clinics. In 2011, just as the spike began, the Texas state legislature cut $73.6m from the state's family planning budget of $111.5m. The two-thirds cut forced more than 80 family planning clinics to shut down across the state. The remaining clinics managed to provide services such as low-cost or free birth control, cancer screenings and well-woman exams to only half as many women as before." --- end quote --- I really don't understand your continual need to bash California. Every state has its advantages and disadvantages. Nobody could convince me that half your criticisms are unique to California.
