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Originally Posted by pocketkangaroo
If it's about personal responsibility, why does California only get back $0.78 for every $1 they pay in federal taxes? They would be fine fiscally if they didn't have to prop up so many red states with their taxes.
The personal responsibility thing for Republicans kind of goes out the window when the red states are overwhelmingly the welfare states.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/266.html |
That's a nice fairy tale. Unfortunately it is the welfare recipients within blue and red states that vote left. Regardless of which way an overall state leans, welfare trash votes left to keep their handouts rolling in, and everyone knows it. That's why your beloved party will never allow welfare recipients to be drug tested or meet any basic criteria for their handouts.
Perhaps California would be just fine if they didn't sustain themselves by buying votes with handouts. It hurts having to pay those handouts now, doesn't it?