Texas has a rainy-day fund projected to reach $27 billion. A budget surplus. The largest energy reserves of any state. No income tax.
And the Legislature just committed $1.5 billion over ten years in cash grants to Hollywood productions filming in Texas.
$300 million every two years. Up to 31% cash back on qualifying productions. Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson lobbied for it personally at the Capitol. Dan Patrick called it a priority.
Meanwhile, the average Texas homeowner is still waiting for meaningful property tax relief.
Hollywood got $1.5 billion.
You get a campaign promise. 💀
The reactions to this thread have been revelatory.
You see, it’s perfectly fine to say “there are too many White people in the faculty”. That’s acceptable, hell it’s NOBLE by some standards.
But if you even IMPLY that there are too many Indians in the faculty? Racism.