re: #8 Anymouse 🌹

All I can say is I’m glad we left Oklahoma before wingnuts collapsed the state budget. The Guardian calls Oklahoma a “failed state.”

The state’s teacher of the year in 2016 upped stakes and moved to Texas, because Quik Trip employees make more and the state has completely gutted its education system (they are down to four-day weeks because they can’t afford more).

The state is a Dumpster fire of libertarian conservatism. What a change when it was a powerhouse of the Socialist Party before the First Red Scare.

wonkette.com

Essentially, when wingnuts gained control of the legislature (the time we left), they got a referendum before the populace raising taxes on the oil industry and slashing taxes on property, then imposed a 3/4 majority requirement to pass a tax increase in the legislature.

Then the price of oil collapsed. With people fleeing the state, the entire state economy is collapsing.

It’s like they looked at Kansas and declared “Pansies! We can crash our economy even faster and in a bigger fireball!!!” The hilarious part is the same story is playing out in red states across the board: “We’ll bet big on oil prices never going down to balance our budgets. Wait, why is oil getting cheaper? FUCK, WE’RE DOOMED!!!!”