Comment by 1659447091
21 hours ago
> The federal government bails Texas out of the messes they get themselves into all the time (like their shitty power grid)
What (federal) bailout did Texas receive for the power grid? Unless something changed, Texas refuses fed help for the power grid because it wants to stay independent. Texas bailed itself out of the 2021 power grid failure with a couple/few billion dollars that Texas pays for. And while not great, Texas refused hundreds of millions in federal money to shore up flood protections, which came to light last year. Texas is not your typical southern state that takes and does nothing for itself.
https://www.fox26houston.com/news/texas-gets-60-million-in-f...
https://casar.house.gov/media/press-releases/news-federal-go...
Did you read those sources? The $60 million is not bail out type money specifically designed for getting Texas out of its "own messes", it's a grant from the Infrastructure bill [0].
Those links are a country wide program that benefits the whole of the US, which Texas is sill a part of. Even with a very generous acceptance of your proof, 60 million is nothing compared to the 2.5 billion Texas funded themselves to shore up their independent grid. They won't take bail out type money because they refuse to accept federal oversight that comes with it.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Investment_and_...