Ok... this once I'll answer your questions:
You asked: Explain why 90%+ of scientists self ID as Dems/Libs?
Easy, that is just not true. Show me where 90% of scientists self identify as democrat. Are you talking about high school teachers? Engineers? Define scientist and tell me who you are polling.
You asked: Explain hoe red states are so poor, and blue states pay the freight?
Easy, that is just not true. Republican states are less expensive to live in, one result of being less expensive is the average rate of pay can also be lower due to the cost of living being lower. Additionally, many retired folks live in republican states. Most bullshit reports about red states sucking down welfare are counting SS as welfare, which is a lie. Further, many of the republican states are in proximity to where the immigration, legal and illegal, is occurring. Still further, many pf the republican states are rural states with lots of farms and such, where incomes are generally lower. You can't compare a job picking strawberries, with a job trading stocks on the NY stock exchange. Even further, just because a state is republican, does not mean everyone in the state is republican. Shockingly there are many millions of democrats in republican states. Even more shockingly, there are many millions of republicans in democrat states. You assume, incorrectly that the republicans in democrat states are donating their incomes as "democrats" and you also assume, incorrectly that democrats receiving welfare in republican states are doing so as republicans. IOW you're a fool for believing said lies.
You said: Yes, the platform of the GOP is gut taxes for the rich, note how the ONLY tax increase they didn't fight to keep, was Obama's temp 2% reduction on SS?
Nonsense! Bush's tax breaks reduced taxes for the middle class and poor SIGNIFICANTLY MORE by percentage of income than it did for the upper income classes. SIGNIFICANTLY BIGGER CUTS WENT TO THE POOR However, the democrats are apparently math challenged and don't understand that going from 8% taxes to zero percent taxes is a significantly bigger tax cut than going from 35% to 28% or from 28% to 23%. Or the democrats start lying about capital gains taxes being the same thing as personal income taxes. IOW the democrats for the most part are silent to the truth, mentally handicapped, or liars... you pick. As for the 2% reduction on SS.. OMFG SS payments are to fund SS. Are you democrats actually arguing to DEFUND SOCIAL SECURITY? WTF?
Got it, you have all the right wing memes (LIES) down
Only Six Percent Of Scientists Are Republicans: Pew Poll
The ideological discrepancies were similar. Nine percent of scientists said they were "conservative" while 52 percent described themselves as "liberal," and 14 percent "very liberal."
Only Six Percent Of Scientists Are Republicans Pew Poll
Weird, immigration is happening in the poorest red states like Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, West Virginia, Louisiana, Montana, South Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama, and North Carolina? lol
Blue States are from Scandinavia, Red States are from Guatemala A theory of a divided nation
In the red states, government is cheaper, which means the people who live there pay lower taxes. But they also get a lot less in return. The unemployment checks run out more quickly and the schools generally aren’t as good. Assistance with health care, child care, and housing is skimpier, if it exists at all.
The result of this divergence is that one half of the country looks more and more like Scandinavia, while the other increasingly resembles a social Darwinist’s paradise.
Blue States are from Scandinavia Red States are from Guatemala New Republic
Can Scott Walker make the case for conservatism?
Economy Killer Scott Walker Takes Wisconsin to 49th in the Country
But Walker has developed a consistent record for failure. Republicans try to blame the economy, but these measurements put his state at the bottom with a projected decrease in growth, compared to others that indicate growth.
And then there’s the other data. In March of this year,
Wisconsin plunged to 44th in private sector job growth. Also, Wisconsin came in as the
fifth worst in terms of the erosion in private-sector wages.
Forbes named Wisconsin
one of the “worst states” for business in December of 2012. Wisconsin is 44th for overall economic performance and 39th for business climate.
In May of 2013, the
Chamber of Commerce rewarded 2016 hopeful Scott Walker for making Wisconsin last in job growth, noting that he made Wisconsin an “enterprising state”. FYI, an enterprising state is one that embracing right wing ideology, based on the premise that tax cuts will lead to growth, jobs, and general greatness.
However, the Chamber’s own study placed Wisconsin dead last for short term job growth from September 2010 and November 2012.
“Wisconsin clearly is not leading the recovery,” William Delwiche, an economist in Milwaukee at Robert W. Baird & Co, told the
Journal Online. That’s an understatement if ever there were one.
Economy Killer Scott Walker Takes Wisconsin to 49th in the Country
Scott Walker has failed Wisconsin and Minnesota is the proof
Scott Walker has failed Wisconsin and Minnesota is the proof - JSOnline
Yes, the GOP fought for Dubyas's tax cuts, the ones where the richest saved over $1,000,000 per family in 9 years from it!
Bush Tax Cuts Have Provided Extremely Large Benefits to Wealthiest Americans Over Last Nine Years
- The average tax cut that people making over $1 million received exceeded $110,000 in each of the last nine years — for a total of more than $1 million over this period.
- The tax cuts made the tax system less progressive.
Bush Tax Cuts Have Provided Extremely Large Benefits to Wealthiest Americans Over Last Nine Years mdash Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Fueled income inequality: This chart from the Congressional Research Service suggests that the Bush tax cuts, which significantly reduce top marginal tax rates and capital gains rates, helped widen income inequality in the 2000s. As the report says, “as the top tax rates are reduced, the share of income accruing to the top of the income distribution increases — that is, income disparities increase.” This chart shows how the percentage of income flowing to the top 0.1 percent of earners increases as top tax rates decrease.
Benefited the wealthy: By any measure, the Bush tax cuts have benefited the wealthy more than the middle class. Here’s a chart, based on data from the Tax Policy Center, showing the distributional breakdown of the Bush tax cuts before they were amended on Tuesday. Going forward, the top 1 percent of earners will benefit much less -- though still quite a bit.
The legacy of the Bush tax cuts in four charts - The Washington Post