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Originally Posted by crockett
The stats are based on what each state pays vs what they get back from the federal govt.
New York Obviously pays more in federal taxes each year compared to New Mexico.. Obviously New York will get back more money.
Seriously is that hard to comprehend? Are you saying that it's ok for states to get back more than what they paid? If so why bitch about welfare moms? It's the exact same so why is it ok on the State level but not on the individual level?
Welfare states are negative income states on federal tax dollars. Those extra dollars that are returned to them have to come from somewhere. That somewhere is from the pockets of the states that pay more than they get back.
It's simple math Robbie, why is that so hard to understand?
The Right always bitches about welfare yet they can't even pay their own way on the state level. The bulk of red states aren't paying their own way.
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The "states" don't pay ANYTHING.
The PEOPLE living there do.
And if you are saying that 2 million people in New Mexico are a bunch of "freeloaders" you are insane.
Those people don't see much of ANY of that money (you know the whole 5.6 million dollars that the STATE gets)
You are so blinded by politics that you can't see the reality. It IS simple math.
New Mexico simply gets a tiny 5.6 million dollars per year from the Federal govt. (I deduced that from your stupid Mother Jones stats)
And where does that money go? To cronies of their Congressmen and Senators.
You are making it sound like a bunch of toothless redneck Republican PEOPLE are getting a big govt. handout.
But it's not the way it is at all.
As I said...New Mexico only has 2 million people. Mostly Native American and hispanic. If you really think that a whopping 5.6 million dollars (that those people will never see) is a "Red State on Govt. Welfare" then you and I will never agree.
In my opinion...the Federal govt. does not NEED so much money to begin with. And shouldn't have all this power to take money FROM the people of the 50 states and then use it to extort the States to do their bidding by threatening to withhold "federal funding' (which is actually the people's money that the govt. took to begin with)
Just go on ranting and raving about "blue" and "red".
The politicians in Washington LOVE it! Makes their mutli-million dollar lifestyles that much easier to maintain.