WTF is going on with the Texas (R) Congress members retiring?

[rufus dog]

17. Thanks to you and all the others for the detail

So in the OC it looks like tRump asshole ways were good for a 7 or 8 points swing. (similar in NJ)

Forgot that Texas drives a huge portion of revenue from Property tax, so even though the same house in SoCal might be 2 to 2.5 times more expensive, the property taxes are a huge cost driver in Texas. Basically the tax changes impacted us all equally. Where we have high deductions due to mortgage interest, Texans have high deductions due to property taxes.

Now the impact from Taxes are hitting all of us including the Texas cities and suburbs. And as pointed about above, the Gerrymandering resulted in districts being tighter so we may have the perfect storm of Repuke overreach coming back to bite them in the ass.

On a somewhat side note. Some people need a hammer to the head to get it. A neighbor stated to me that tRump was penalizing Californians to make the Dems get their shit together. He was blindly supporting tRump. When I explained to him (a recent home buyer who bought at 3X what I paid) that it sounded like income redistribution to the Red States AND he bought in at a very high cost, thus has very little margin if prices drop. Since the deductions were greatly reduced by tRump future buyers will be impacted, thus he and his family have much more to lose. In my case a 20% drop leaves me with 400 to 450k of profit. In his case, it puts him underwater. You could see his jaws tighten, I think I even heard his ass clench.