“And there is the irony that the Blue States pay the majority of federal taxes and export that money to the Red states.”
That’s actually an LSM lie based on some playing with the stats. For example, Texas is about 35th in revenue from the FedGov, but if you play with the numbers (not that hard to do and most people can’t spot the games), we show up as number 4 or so.
No it is not a lie. I have checked into federal taxation and it is true.
Now that is not saying that every blue state pays more in federal taxes than it receives or that every red state gets more in federal taxes than it pays.
The numbers I examined did not list Texas as a deficit state but most states are not like Texas.