“These places that got flooded, like Texas, okay, they have a low tax base,”
“In 2012, the gross domestic product (GDP) of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area (MSA) was $449 billion, the fourth-largest of any metro area in the United States. The Houston metropolitan area comprises the largest concentration of petrochemical manufacturing in the world, including for synthetic rubber, insecticides, and fertilizers. It is the world’s leading center for oilfield equipment construction, with the city of Houston home to more than 3,000 energy-related businesses, including many of the top oil and gas exploration and production firms and petroleum pipeline operators. As of 2011, 23 companies on the Fortune 500 list have their headquarters in, or around, Houston.
The Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area ranked 33rd among the nation’s 361 MSAs on per capita personal income at US$36,852 - 11.5 percent higher than the national figure of US$33,050. In 2012, Houston was ranked #1 by Forbes for paycheck worth, and, in late May 2013, it was identified as America’s top city for job creation.”
So... you were saying something about a low tax base?
I didn’t have those facts, but knowing that Texas’ economy was booming while the rest of the states were in decline, I seriously doubt it had a low tax base.