The following table represents data from OECD's "median disposable income per person" metric; disposable income deducts from gross income the value of taxes on income and wealth paid and of contributions paid by households to public social security schemes.[4] The figures are equivalised by dividing income by the square root of household size. As OECD displays median disposable incomes in each country's respective currency, the values were converted here using PPP conversion factors for private consumption from the same source, accounting for each country's cost of living in the year that the disposable median income was recorded.[5] Data are in United States dollars at current prices and current purchasing power parity for private consumption for the reference year.
It should be noted these numbers are in no way indicative of standard of living, as someone in a high tax country with excellent services may appear to have lower income despite having fewer expenses after taxes.
The Texas House has been incredibly resistant to this due to a coalition of Democrats and Republicans from more remote areas where whole towns still show up for high school football games. Quite a few of the primaries out there were won by even more right-wing candidates this year, so the margin may be tighter this next legislative session.
They tried and failed to primary Dade Phelan. It'll be interesting to see whether he maintains the speakership. I think he will. I respect the man as far as he's been willing to publicly fight against some of the worst ideas coming from Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick. Without Dade Phelan, Texas might be as bad off as Florida right now. I know this may be hard to understand to some people outside Texas who perceive a Republican free-for-all happening here, but a ton of the worst Republican legislation has died in the Texas House the past several sessions, and it's really pissed off Abbott and Patrick.