Forget rhetoric, Texas gets significant help from Washington
Forget the rhetoric, Texas gets significant help from Washington
Posted on September 27, 2011 at 2:44 pm
by Nolan Hicks
You wouldn’t know it from all the anti-federal government rhetoric that pervaded the 2010 election, the recently concluded Legislative session, or Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential campaign, but Texas received almost $44 billion in direct federal aid to state and local governments in 2010, according to figures released today by the U.S. Census Bureau, making it the single largest funding stream for state government.
“In the next two years, federal funding is going to be $54 billion, which is way ahead of the next largest [revenue source], sales tax,â€