A Texas Democrat filed a bill this week in the State Senate to give $1,500 to every household in the Lone Star State. The one-time payment from the Texas Rainy Day Fund would fulfill a campaign promise by Governor-Elect Gina Hinojosa and would include payments to illegal aliens.
We Texans are very proud of our Rainy Day Fund, because when Bad Things Happen (floods, tornadoes, hurricanes etc. — which are a frequent occurrence in the Lone Star State), it means that our government can actually give a helping hand to the people affected by said Bad Things without going into debt (unlike the FedGov, which just prints money to do the same thing).
Now the part that really gets me loading up the gun bag for a range trip:
On her campaign website, Governor-Elect Hinojosa promised a $1,500 Corruption Tax Refund. She stated:
“Greg Abbott has hoarded $27 billion in taxpayer money into the Rainy Day Fund – money that belongs to Texans – while families struggle to pay their bills. No Texas politician has ever hoarded taxpayer dollars like this – and it’s time Texans get that money back. It is fiscally irresponsible for the government – that money should be working in our economy.
“The Rainy Day fund needs about a $10 billion balance to be fiscally responsible according to experts, so Gina will direct the legislature to return the other $17 billion to Texas families in the form of a $1,500 refund – because Gina knows your money should work for you, not sit idle in Austin.”
If I had a dollar for every time some Commie invoked the “hoarding” trope, I’d be able to afford that seaside cottage that New Wife wants so badly.
And just for the benefit of the economic moron politicians like our future governor [gritting teeth], the Rainy Day Fund doesn’t sit in some giant Scrooge McDuck-like vault:
…it’s invested in things like municipal bonds — you know, money that pays for things like roads, schools and infrastructure — which actually helps grow the Fund. It’s not some government piggy bank that can be plundered at will by Marxists. That’s the very definition of “fiscal irresponsibility”, you fucking Marxist sow.
And let’s not even talk about the part that would give the money away to illegal aliens. That’s worth another half-dozen extra boxes of ammo in the bag, all by itself.
I would hope that the Texas legislature will defenestrate this little Communist activity with prejudice, but I’m no longer sure of anything, anymore.
Not after the latest elections.