Yeah, I agree. The question is phrased poorly, but it calls out the unfair comparisons our state of California has suffered in recent years to states like Texas and Nevada that were pro-business and laissez-faire about regulation and taxation.
The conventional wisdom was, if you want to be prosperous (California), you need to be like Texas.
Or some shit like that.
Well, it turns out the rosy finances in places like Texas / Nevada were largely smoke and mirrors.
Texas has a bigger deficit problem than California as a percentage of revenue or gross economic product.
