The left better hope the right has an agenda for jobs.
Nine seats lost in the senate......
More lost in the house.......
If the GOP does not come through....it looks like those on the left better hope food stamps don't run out.
Of course, we'll see all those posting about where the welfare goes....to red states like Missouri. Where two large urban centers loaded with democrats suck off the federal tit.
Blue State, Red Face: Guess Who Benefits More From Your Taxes?
To save space below, “pension benefits” include both Medicare and Social Security; “anti-poverty aid” includes Head Start, Low Income Home Energy Assistance, Food Stamp and nutrition programs for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), and several school-lunch-style benefits.
Top Ten (Source: Tax Foundation):
1.
New Mexico Indian reservations, military bases, federal research labs, farm subsidies, retirement programs
2.
Mississippi Farm subsidies, military spending, nutrition and anti-poverty aid, retirement programs.
3.
Alaska Per capita No 1 recipient of federal benefits; infrastructure projects, DOT and pork projects.
4.
Louisiana Disaster relief, farm subsidies, anti-poverty and nutrition aid, military spending.
5.
W. Virginia Farm subsidies, anti-poverty and nutrition aid.
6.
N. Dakota Farm subsidies, energy subsidies, retirement and anti-poverty programs, Indian reservations.
7.
Alabama Retirement programs, anti-poverty and nutrition aid, federal space/military spending, farm subsidies.
8.
S. Dakota Retirement programs, nutrition aid, farm subsidies, military spending, Indian reservations.
9.
Virginia Civil service pensions, military spending, veterans benefits, retirement, anti-poverty aid.
10.
Kentucky Retirement programs, nutritional and anti-poverty aid, farm subsidies.
Now consider the bottom 10, i.e., the ones that give more to the federal government in taxes than they get in return. From 1 to 10, they are:
New Jersey, Nevada, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Illinois, Delaware, California, New York, Colorado.
Anything strange about that list? Yes, they are all blue states (or the deepest of purple).
Adding to this fallacy are the assumptions surrounding Mitt Romney’s now infamous comments about the indolent “47 percent” of Americans who regard themselves as victims and therefore pay no taxes. As the American Conservative magazine (no less) pointed out recently, nine of those 10 states are in the red-as-ruby Old Confederacy.*
Put another way, again by the American Conservative, “On the other hand, eight of the ten states with the highest non-payment rates are solidly Republican. The exceptions are New Mexico and Florida.”
Is your mouth agape?
Blue state red face Guess who benefits more from your taxes
Pew Research Center finds that a majority of Americans (55%) have received government benefits from at least one of the six best-known federal entitlement programs.
The survey also finds that most Democrats (60%) and Republicans (52%) say they have benefited from a major entitlement program at some point in their lives. So have nearly equal shares of self-identifying conservatives (57%), liberals (53%) and moderates (53%).
A Bipartisan Nation of Beneficiaries Pew Research Center s Social Demographic Trends Project