Being a nobel prize winning economist he should be able to do the math on that and understand that for workers that's a big plus.
RE: Living in “the broke state of Texas” you get to keep 15% MORE OF YOUR INCOME than living in “the broke state of New York”.
Texas has a lot more avenues to raise funds such as implementing a short term income tax (Which I don’t think they will).
Would you rather be in a deficit with 0% state income tax or at 14% state income tax? Which state can handle the issue better. I don’t think this is a fight liberals want.
On top of that, Texas doesn’t have the issue of unfunded liabilities associated with pensions, nor does it have the problem of public unions that the other states mentioned have.