What if the better-educated, more successful states refused to subsidize the ones on the take?

[schmidlap]

... Houston recovered from Harvey in a few years.

Houston's disaster was largely self-inflicted, attributable to piss-poor urban planning:

Low density development over a large area — has limited the city’s natural drainage capacity. When concrete is poured over green space, the city loses capacity to absorb water. Sprawl has been exacerbated by a recent population boom and development growth in the city. The problem goes back decades.“We’ve had a lot of early-on development in the ‘60, ‘70s, ‘80s that created this rampant urban expansion. The building practices were the Wild West. Drainage didn’t keep up. ... It’s a developer-run community and city.” This means concrete has gotten priority over maintaining green space, where vegetation and soil can help soak up the water like a sponge.​

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Why Houston’s flooding got so bad, according to storm experts

No city can survive 50 inches of rain unscathed. But Houston is especially prone to floods.

www.vox.com

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Houston was still dependent upon federal assistance, of course:

Harvey is Houston’s third 500-year flood in the past three years. In just the last twelve years hurricanes, severe storms, and floods in Harris County have led to seven major disaster declarations and $1.1 billion in FEMA assistance.​

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Legacy of Harvey and Irma Turns on FEMA’s Post-Disaster Response

Hurricane Harvey destroyed vital roads, public infrastructure, and hundreds of thousands of homes across Houston and southeast Texas. In Florida, Hurricane Irma has left communities reeling with widespread blackouts, severe coastal flooding, and crippled telecommunications systems. When...

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[Oldestyle]

How many homes sit empty in Florida?

Of more than 16 million homes left empty of residents in the U.S., the largest number of empty homes is in Florida. Almost 1.7 million houses in the Sunshine State sit empty.

www.wfla.com

That was moronic even for you, Surada! They're counting second homes that are owned by "snow birds" that don't happen to be in residence as "empty"! You seem to think that means nobody wants to move to Florida...which simply proves how clueless you are!

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Houston's disaster was largely self-inflicted, attributable to piss-poor urban planning:

Low density development over a large area — has limited the city’s natural drainage capacity. When concrete is poured over green space, the city loses capacity to absorb water. Sprawl has been exacerbated by a recent population boom and development growth in the city. The problem goes back decades.“We’ve had a lot of early-on development in the ‘60, ‘70s, ‘80s that created this rampant urban expansion. The building practices were the Wild West. Drainage didn’t keep up. ... It’s a developer-run community and city.” This means concrete has gotten priority over maintaining green space, where vegetation and soil can help soak up the water like a sponge.​

​

Why Houston’s flooding got so bad, according to storm experts

No city can survive 50 inches of rain unscathed. But Houston is especially prone to floods.

www.vox.com

​

Houston was still dependent upon federal assistance, of course:

Harvey is Houston’s third 500-year flood in the past three years. In just the last twelve years hurricanes, severe storms, and floods in Harris County have led to seven major disaster declarations and $1.1 billion in FEMA assistance.​

​

Legacy of Harvey and Irma Turns on FEMA’s Post-Disaster Response

Hurricane Harvey destroyed vital roads, public infrastructure, and hundreds of thousands of homes across Houston and southeast Texas. In Florida, Hurricane Irma has left communities reeling with widespread blackouts, severe coastal flooding, and crippled telecommunications systems. When...

riskcenter.wharton.upenn.edu

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You dont know jack shit about whats been done to protect Houston from flooding.
And if Houston did so bad how did they recover in a matter of a couple of years when NO is still fucked after 17 years?

 

[surada]

That was moronic even for you, Surada! They're counting second homes that are owned by "snow birds" that don't happen to be in residence as "empty"! You seem to think that means nobody wants to move to Florida...which simply proves how clueless you are!

I lived in Florida.. it's horrible and full of grifters.

 

[OKTexas]

The federal government's funding of federal entities is a disparate matter. You can research the information if it is of interest to you.

New York is the largest donor state in the U.S., with a negative balance of payments at $22,798,000,000.

The next six donor states and the negative balances of their contributions to the federal government are:

• New Jersey (-$10,334,000,000)
• Massachusetts (-$9,919,000,000)
• California (-$6,653,000,000)
• Connecticut (-$5,754,000,000)
• Minnesota (-$1,896,000,000)
• Colorado ($1,374,000,000)

On the other end of the spectrum are these state with the amount they grab from the general coffers, a transfer of wealth from the fiscally successful ones:

• Kentucky ($63,229,000,000)
• Florida ($50,999,000,000)
• Maryland ($49,942,000,000)
• Ohio ($42,004,000,000)
• Pennsylvania ($41,516,000,000)
• North Carolina ($35,437,000,000)
• Alabama ($33,033,000,000)

The fact is your crap includes everything, it always does with you commies, you never use in context info. What is it they say, statistics lie and liars use statistics.

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[Zincwarrior]

When times get tough, country folk will survive, and our cities will go into the eternal antifa-BLM summer of 2020.

Will you survive when your hospitals, businesses, and post offices shut down?

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

Balance of payments is the amount of revenue paid to the federal government from a state’s residents and economy (taxes) minus the amount of federal spending in that state. Donor states pay more to the federal government in taxes than they receive back in funding.

Advanced states have been bankrolling the ne'er-do-wells, who often bite the generous hands that feed them by enacting retrogressive, discriminatory laws.

New York is the largest donor state in the U.S., with a negative balance of payments at $22,798,000,000.

The next six donor states and the negative balances of their contributions to the federal government are:

• New Jersey (-$10,334,000,000)
• Massachusetts (-$9,919,000,000)
• California (-$6,653,000,000)
• Connecticut (-$5,754,000,000)
• Minnesota (-$1,896,000,000)
• Colorado ($1,374,000,000)

On the other end of the spectrum are these state with the amount they grab from the general coffers, a transfer of wealth from the fiscally successful ones:

• Kentucky ($63,229,000,000)
• Florida ($50,999,000,000)
• Maryland ($49,942,000,000)
• Ohio ($42,004,000,000)
• Pennsylvania ($41,516,000,000)
• North Carolina ($35,437,000,000)
• Alabama ($33,033,000,000)

If beggar states insist on using their largesse from their benefactor states to fund their repressive statism - suppressing freedom and equality in such matters of public interest as voting, reproductive rights, public health, climatology, science teaching - instead financing rabid Statism in the form of gag orders, book banning, bureaucratic womb control, denial of an American's equality despite differences, why fund them?

I cannot pass an indigent on the street without giving him a few bucks, inquiring after his well-being, and listening to his concerns, but, if I found that he was using my meager benefaction for noxious purposes, would I not be justified in desisting from such discretionary allocation of my resources?

An individual and a society honoring the corporal works of mercy is a benison to both, but there is an assumption of responsibility.

In sharing one's prosperity, one should do no harm.

What if the states with all the food stopped feeding the blue states?

 

[Zincwarrior]

What if the states with all the food stopped feeding the blue states?

They would buy from other countries. Next question.

Also Tyson Foods isn't stopping production over your dead body.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

They would buy from other countries. Next question.

For higher prices and lower quality food? Yeah, go for it...lol

 

[Zincwarrior]

For higher prices and lower quality food? Yeah, go for it...lol

They already are. Again the mega ag corps will insure production. Family farms is just a myth from the past now.

 

[bripat9643]

They’d be better off without our stinking liberal money.

True, so why don't you terminate those liberal programs that pay them?

 

[AMart]

OFF TOPIC:

Who is depicted in the schmidlump avatar image?

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Tommy Tainted's gay lover?

 

[AMart]

No, neither are allocation of federal resources to state coffers.

The donor states, via the federal government, subsidize the ones on the take.

Those states are not donating money to the other states idiot.

 

[bripat9643]

No, neither are allocation of federal resources to state coffers.

The donor states, via the federal government, subsidize the ones on the take.

The states that have a surplus on their receipts from the federal government have a large population of seniors and people on welfare. That's who you want to cut off. That's who you're calling moochers.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

They already are. Again the mega ag corps will insure production. Family farms is just a myth from the past now.

Those high revenue states don't produce anything. They only consume. The products they consume come from the evil poor states you bitch about so much.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

The states that have a surplus on their receipts from the federal government have a large population of seniors and people on welfare. That's who you want to cut off. That's who you're calling moochers.

And black folks.

 

[Seymour Flops]

The founders foresaw this possibility and prevented part of it by requiring that any direct tax on citizens by the federal government be apportioned to states according to their population. The the sixteenth amendment ended that requirement and began the process of exponentially growing both taxes and the federal government.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Those high revenue states don't produce anything. They only consume. The products they consume come from the evil poor states you bitch about so much.

Yes be cause bumfuck Mississippi invented computers, Google, or well fucking anything besides slavery.

 

[Wild Bill Kelsoe]

Yes be cause bumfuck Mississippi invented computers, Google, or well fucking anything besides slavery.

Bumfuck Mississippi produces the commodities and raw materials that make all that possible.

Slaves were traded at Harvard and Yale made money from the slave trade, so spare us the woke horseshit.

 

[Zincwarrior]

Bumfuck Mississippi produces the commodities and raw materials that make all that possible.

Slaves were traded at Harvard and Yale made money from the slave trade, so spare us the woke horseshit.

So they make food and tobacco. Anything else? Seriously is that it?