taxes, blue states, and red states

[Old Rocks]

Do you realize how it sucks to be a liberal and listen to all the whining Conservatives? Constantly crying in their beer instead of going out and getting a job.

We liberals in the blue states have to subsidize their lazy asses. Here is a list of states that recieve more from the federal government than they put in.

1. D.C. ($6.17)
2. North Dakota ($2.03)
3. New Mexico ($1.89)
4. Mississippi ($1.84)
5. Alaska ($1.82)
6. West Virginia ($1.74)
7. Montana ($1.64)
8. Alabama ($1.61)
9. South Dakota ($1.59)
10. Arkansas ($1.53)

And a list of states that recieve less.

New Jersey ($0.62)
2. Connecticut ($0.64)
3. New Hampshire ($0.68)
4. Nevada ($0.73)
5. Illinois ($0.77)
6. Minnesota ($0.77)
7. Colorado ($0.79)
8. Massachusetts ($0.79)
9. California ($0.81)
10. New York ($0.81)

Come on, fellows, can't you get off of your lazy asses just once?

 

[Avatar4321]

Sounds to me like youd prefer it if the Federal government didn't have as much of your tax money to give to people who are lazy.

Welcome to the conservative movement.

 

[Old Rocks]

Hey Elvis, no need to take it personal.

 

[elvis]

Hey Elvis, no need to take it personal.

well since I live in a blue state, I guess it doesn't matter.

 

[Oddball]

Do you realize how it sucks to be a liberal and listen to all the whining Conservatives? Constantly crying in their beer instead of going out and getting a job.

We liberals in the blue states have to subsidize their lazy asses. Here is a list of states that recieve more from the federal government than they put in.

1. D.C. ($6.17)
2. North Dakota ($2.03)
3. New Mexico ($1.89)
4. Mississippi ($1.84)
5. Alaska ($1.82)
6. West Virginia ($1.74)
7. Montana ($1.64)
8. Alabama ($1.61)
9. South Dakota ($1.59)
10. Arkansas ($1.53)

And a list of states that recieve less.

New Jersey ($0.62)
2. Connecticut ($0.64)
3. New Hampshire ($0.68)
4. Nevada ($0.73)
5. Illinois ($0.77)
6. Minnesota ($0.77)
7. Colorado ($0.79)
8. Massachusetts ($0.79)
9. California ($0.81)
10. New York ($0.81)

Come on, fellows, can't you get off of your lazy asses just once?

Too bad, so sad.

That's what you get for living the lie that you're doing everyone a big fat favor by being a Fabian do-gooder.

 

[Si modo]

Do you realize how it sucks to be a liberal and listen to all the whining Conservatives? Constantly crying in their beer instead of going out and getting a job.

We liberals in the blue states have to subsidize their lazy asses. Here is a list of states that recieve more from the federal government than they put in.

1. D.C. ($6.17)
2. North Dakota ($2.03)
3. New Mexico ($1.89)
4. Mississippi ($1.84)
5. Alaska ($1.82)
6. West Virginia ($1.74)
7. Montana ($1.64)
8. Alabama ($1.61)
9. South Dakota ($1.59)
10. Arkansas ($1.53)

And a list of states that recieve less.

New Jersey ($0.62)
2. Connecticut ($0.64)
3. New Hampshire ($0.68)
4. Nevada ($0.73)
5. Illinois ($0.77)
6. Minnesota ($0.77)
7. Colorado ($0.79)
8. Massachusetts ($0.79)
9. California ($0.81)
10. New York ($0.81)

Come on, fellows, can't you get off of your lazy asses just once?

Did you research those states' (and district's) budgets yourself to get those numbers or did someone else do that work? If the latter, you need to credit them and preferably give the rest of us the source so that we can look at the methodology.

Thanks in advance.

 

[ihopehefails]

I've said this before that most of those red states are rural areas so if you spend just as much money on a rural red state as blue state the ratio of the money spent vs money taxed per person is going to be higher.

Its interesting to note that the same people that throw this stat out don't tell you how much per state tax dollars are being spent.

 

[slackjawed]

Do you realize how it sucks to be a liberal and listen to all the whining Conservatives? Constantly crying in their beer instead of going out and getting a job.

We liberals in the blue states have to subsidize their lazy asses. Here is a list of states that recieve more from the federal government than they put in.

1. D.C. ($6.17)
2. North Dakota ($2.03)
3. New Mexico ($1.89)
4. Mississippi ($1.84)
5. Alaska ($1.82)
6. West Virginia ($1.74)
7. Montana ($1.64)
8. Alabama ($1.61)
9. South Dakota ($1.59)
10. Arkansas ($1.53)

And a list of states that recieve less.

New Jersey ($0.62)
2. Connecticut ($0.64)
3. New Hampshire ($0.68)
4. Nevada ($0.73)
5. Illinois ($0.77)
6. Minnesota ($0.77)
7. Colorado ($0.79)
8. Massachusetts ($0.79)
9. California ($0.81)
10. New York ($0.81)

Come on, fellows, can't you get off of your lazy asses just once?

got a link for any of that, i would be interested in see more.

or is this just your own "research"?

 

[rightwinger]

Red States have smaller populations and still have the same number of Senators. This puts them in a position to receive more percapita than populated states.

They also have a disproportionate number of military bases which recieve more federal aid

 

[Old Rocks]

Do you realize how it sucks to be a liberal and listen to all the whining Conservatives? Constantly crying in their beer instead of going out and getting a job.

We liberals in the blue states have to subsidize their lazy asses. Here is a list of states that recieve more from the federal government than they put in.

1. D.C. ($6.17)
2. North Dakota ($2.03)
3. New Mexico ($1.89)
4. Mississippi ($1.84)
5. Alaska ($1.82)
6. West Virginia ($1.74)
7. Montana ($1.64)
8. Alabama ($1.61)
9. South Dakota ($1.59)
10. Arkansas ($1.53)

And a list of states that recieve less.

New Jersey ($0.62)
2. Connecticut ($0.64)
3. New Hampshire ($0.68)
4. Nevada ($0.73)
5. Illinois ($0.77)
6. Minnesota ($0.77)
7. Colorado ($0.79)
8. Massachusetts ($0.79)
9. California ($0.81)
10. New York ($0.81)

Come on, fellows, can't you get off of your lazy asses just once?

got a link for any of that, i would be interested in see more.

or is this just your own "research"?

TaxProf Blog: Red States Feed at Federal Trough, Blue States Supply the Feed

 

[Old Rocks]

This land is red land, paid for by blue land ... America: Paid For By the Blue States - November 29, 2004

But a new analysis in The Great Divide: Retro vs. Metro America, a coffee-table book/political rant by liberal billionaire John Sperling, shows that a fiscal map looks awfully like an electoral map. (Lest you think this is all just liberal bias, the right-leaning Tax Foundation supplies similar data.) Between 1991 and 2001, "winner" states got nearly $1 trillion more in federal benefits than they paid in taxes. Alabama won the biggest, raking in $100 billion. Losers California, New York, and Illinois each paid $250 billion or so more than they got back. The huge gaps are driven by higher average incomes in the "donor" states, plus subsidies for farms, oil, mining--"extractive" industries that skew red. There are exceptions (Texas is a loser, Pennsylvania a winner), but the map on this page shows the big picture. The heist is more impressive considering that the winners have only a third of the U.S. population.

For blue staters, it's one thing to watch red states pick the President and set national policy on everything from Iraq to judges. But to pay them lavishly for the pleasure suggests that blues aren't just losers, they're stupid losers. You can feel blue anger rising. You reds don't like taxes? Okay, stop taking mine! You can have your states' rights too--and we'll start by cutting your allowance!

 

[WillowTree]

Do you realize how it sucks to be a liberal and listen to all the whining Conservatives? Constantly crying in their beer instead of going out and getting a job.

We liberals in the blue states have to subsidize their lazy asses. Here is a list of states that recieve more from the federal government than they put in.

1. D.C. ($6.17)
2. North Dakota ($2.03)
3. New Mexico ($1.89)
4. Mississippi ($1.84)
5. Alaska ($1.82)
6. West Virginia ($1.74)
7. Montana ($1.64)
8. Alabama ($1.61)
9. South Dakota ($1.59)
10. Arkansas ($1.53)

And a list of states that recieve less.

New Jersey ($0.62)
2. Connecticut ($0.64)
3. New Hampshire ($0.68)
4. Nevada ($0.73)
5. Illinois ($0.77)
6. Minnesota ($0.77)
7. Colorado ($0.79)
8. Massachusetts ($0.79)
9. California ($0.81)
10. New York ($0.81)

Come on, fellows, can't you get off of your lazy asses just once?

when you prove to us it's the Republicans in those states that are on the dole.. let us know.

 

[WillowTree]

This land is red land, paid for by blue land ... America: Paid For By the Blue States - November 29, 2004

But a new analysis in The Great Divide: Retro vs. Metro America, a coffee-table book/political rant by liberal billionaire John Sperling, shows that a fiscal map looks awfully like an electoral map. (Lest you think this is all just liberal bias, the right-leaning Tax Foundation supplies similar data.) Between 1991 and 2001, "winner" states got nearly $1 trillion more in federal benefits than they paid in taxes. Alabama won the biggest, raking in $100 billion. Losers California, New York, and Illinois each paid $250 billion or so more than they got back. The huge gaps are driven by higher average incomes in the "donor" states, plus subsidies for farms, oil, mining--"extractive" industries that skew red. There are exceptions (Texas is a loser, Pennsylvania a winner), but the map on this page shows the big picture. The heist is more impressive considering that the winners have only a third of the U.S. population.

For blue staters, it's one thing to watch red states pick the President and set national policy on everything from Iraq to judges. But to pay them lavishly for the pleasure suggests that blues aren't just losers, they're stupid losers. You can feel blue anger rising. You reds don't like taxes? Okay, stop taking mine! You can have your states' rights too--and we'll start by cutting your allowance!

do it by god, we double dog dare ya!

 

[WillowTree]

Red States have smaller populations and still have the same number of Senators. This puts them in a position to receive more percapita than populated states.

They also have a disproportionate number of military bases which recieve more federal aid

wowser.. wowser wowser

 

[The Rabbi]

I'd be OK resurrecting the old Confederacy, adopting the original Constitution sans slavery, and telling the Federales sayonara.

 

[rightwinger]

I'd be OK resurrecting the old Confederacy, adopting the original Constitution sans slavery, and telling the Federales sayonara.

See ya!

 

[Intense]

Red States have smaller populations and still have the same number of Senators. This puts them in a position to receive more percapita than populated states.

They also have a disproportionate number of military bases which recieve more federal aid

Somebody has to pay for all of those highways. All roads lead to Gotham none the less. Got to get those goods to market Toby.

 

[slackjawed]

Do you realize how it sucks to be a liberal and listen to all the whining Conservatives? Constantly crying in their beer instead of going out and getting a job.

We liberals in the blue states have to subsidize their lazy asses. Here is a list of states that recieve more from the federal government than they put in.

1. D.C. ($6.17)
2. North Dakota ($2.03)
3. New Mexico ($1.89)
4. Mississippi ($1.84)
5. Alaska ($1.82)
6. West Virginia ($1.74)
7. Montana ($1.64)
8. Alabama ($1.61)
9. South Dakota ($1.59)
10. Arkansas ($1.53)

And a list of states that recieve less.

New Jersey ($0.62)
2. Connecticut ($0.64)
3. New Hampshire ($0.68)
4. Nevada ($0.73)
5. Illinois ($0.77)
6. Minnesota ($0.77)
7. Colorado ($0.79)
8. Massachusetts ($0.79)
9. California ($0.81)
10. New York ($0.81)

Come on, fellows, can't you get off of your lazy asses just once?

got a link for any of that, i would be interested in see more.

or is this just your own "research"?

TaxProf Blog: Red States Feed at Federal Trough, Blue States Supply the Feed

cool, thanks!

 

[sole survivor]

I think when we look at the Red state Blue state issue we should look at the STATEs

eh

Heres my Govenor scolding the red asses about their high taxes and liberal spending

States Too Broke for Obama-Care? - Video - FoxNews.com

 

[slackjawed]

I'd be OK resurrecting the old Confederacy, adopting the original Constitution sans slavery, and telling the Federales sayonara.

See ya!

Wait, there's not going to be slaves? damn