[Age of Reason]

Texas is over 22 million (85% of which live in metropolitan areas) and not even close to having a state income tax.

You will have it within ten-years (I'll guesstimate probably within six-years) if your population keeps growing like it has been.

. . . . unless the government has some other outrageously lucrative source of income.

But even then, you will have it--if for no other reason than to redistribute wealth.

[Texas_Dawg]

You will have it within ten-years (I'll guesstimate probably within six-years) if your population keeps growing like it has been.

Yeah, you just let me know, OK? Your little theory is nice... it works in some places and not in others, so is basically just a silly theory that doesn't have much to do with anything. Texas has grown and grown and become more and more urban and is only getting more conservative. No one in Texas has ever even seriously mentioned having a state income tax that I know of. And Democrats are a dying breed in Texas so the trends seem to be against your theory there.

[Dog Gone]

In order for Texas to have a state income tax in six years, as you predict, the legislature would have to pass a constitutional amendment by a 2/3rds vote, and the voters of Texas would have to approve it at the ballot box.

That won't happen.