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To: lrdg; All

It is a stupid analysis.

Tax dollars are paid out to individuals for the purposes of the federal government.

Taxes are paid by individuals, corporations, and overseas groups as tarriffs.

There are completely different purposes of the income and the outgo.

It is simply a false comparison to look at taxes going into a state, and coming out of a state. It sounds plausible, but they are completely different things.

It is like saying “People in the army consume far more taxes than they pay!” The comparison is a non-argument.


6 posted on 03/14/2017 7:52:47 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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You would think an extreme example would be if they counted the costs of the Border Patrol in TX as money “going to” TX the same as if it was welfare. Or Social Security and Medicare outlays going to states that are retirement magnets like AZ or FL or NC.

A more useful gauge would be welfare spending per capita in a state vs. personal income tax revenues from that state. Including business tax revenues is, I suspect, the only reason CA is not a darker blue in their chart since Silicon Valley pays huge corporate taxes.


19 posted on 03/14/2017 8:37:48 PM PDT by Kellis91789 (We hope for a bloodless revolution, but revolution is still the goal.)
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