Re: "The Dirty Little Secret of Texas’ Big Business Success"

I found an article about tax system in Texas from Hashir Ali’s blog. His evaluation is well pointed out. The author also put a video of Texas’ pro-business advertisement to support his argument.  Many big businesses from other states like California, Illinois and New York move to Texas for lower state tax. I feel this is true since Austin, city where I live, is growing really fast in the last three years. Not to ignore Houston, San Antonio and Dallas. I also heard that many Californians moved to Texas because Texas created plenty of jobs. But, without sacrificing the poor people, all these greatness of Texas will not happen.

I agree that the tax in Texas can be said ‘regressive’ because everybody pays the same flat rate. True that the system of “flat rate” because everybody is paying the same amount of tax. But if we see it in more detail, the percentage of tax paid by poor people is more than the rich people. Which means the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

I also agree that Texas has put unfair tax system.  Regressive tax system will force the poor to be in the poverty condition endlessly. No way that the poor can get out from poverty. I also consider that progressive tax system is better to decrease the gap between the poor and the rich. Thus rich people cannot enjoy the super low tax anymore.