Oh, wait. This isn't about Moochelle 0bama...
Posted on 03/14/2017 7:39:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I wonder if that includes Indian Reservations.
There are lies, damned lies and statistics. Someone figure out how much of a tax burden is paid in total. State, local, business, regulation, federal, car tabs, license fees, hunting/fishing licenses, trucker weight fees, gas tax. It has to be over 50% of all earnings for the middle class.
I agree with it, over sixty percent of adults in my Ky County receive welfare of one sort or another. It didn’t used to be that way but Big factory after big factory, mostly in the garment and textiles industry, Fruit of the loom, Carhartt, etc. left because of various reasons.
And now... well it’s more lucrative to get SSDI or straight welfare than a job. In fact those companies that are still here are begging for workers. They just can’t compete with the Welfare checks though.
Oh, wait. This isn't about Moochelle 0bama...
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.
I would really love to see some analysis on DISCRETIONARY spending amongst the states. Also, these numbers should be broken down by electoral votes. If you get 10% of the vote for the country, you should supply at least 10% of the tax revenue.
It’s an interesting set of stats.
I know a lot of folks think California takes more than it’s fair share. In truth it pays in quite a bit.
In this ranking, it’s not that bad.
That isn’t to say that California isn’t in bad shape and doing worse. It is.
Still, as far as what it pays in and gets back from the federal government, it’s not so bad after all.
I didn’t think it was.
Thank you for the post. Quite informative.
I wonder about the source of the tax dollars spent. If the dollars are for social security, Medicare, ammunition and machinery manufacturing and military salaries and facilities maintenance, then it would be spending for a different purpose than Medicaid, welfare, assistance, food coupons and similar social spending.
Alabama:
Redstone Arsenal
Marshall Space Flight Center
Anniston Army Depot
Fort Rucker
And that money isn’t given away. A lot of work goes on here that benefits the rest of the country.
I feel like such a sucker living in one of them thar yellow states where Americans still do the jobs Americans are no longer doing.
Very interesting, we are going in the hole.
Are the figures in this excluding Federal money spent on military personnel and facilities?
Easier if those that are not listed.
Some things which probably affect it are how many on the dole, how long have your Congressmen been in, and how many are on the Appropriations Committee.
“Formal education is correlated to federal spending per dollar paid (Fig. 3 and 4). This is unsurprising because adults lacking a high school diploma or a college degree usually pay less taxes and consume more in federal nonretirement benefits like Medicare, food assistance, and unemployment.”
Shocking!
The better a group of people are educated, the less the will require in federal assistance.
I figured it would be "Minnie-Sota".
pfl
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.
Surprise-it’s the complete opposite. Has been for a long time. About 20 years ago I listened to a leftist environmentalist say that it’s why we should seek more federal dollars for conservation projects as it’s a way to “get our money back”.
State taxes are high, too. That’s one reason why the poor here have great teeth. I have to work on not being bitter about that, we go years in between dental visits because it’s just so expensive. Our kids giggled last time as they saw the looks between the dentists and hygienists when they commented on how long it had been, then the looks when they were surprised at how there were relatively clean with no cavities. Six kids, two of them had never been to the dentist before and not one cavity.
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