Per capita? We have a lot of poor people in California so no wonder you are monomaniac on that one figure.
California regularly only gets back 0.75$ per dollar sent to DC. States like Virginia get back over 2$ per dollar paid in federal taxes.
Should Virginia have less electoral votes because of that fact?
How about you read the Constitution?
Our Constitution’s apportionment formula for representation in Congress is:
State`s Pop.
___________ X House size (435) = State`s number of representatives.
Pop. of U.S.
FACT
Our Constitution’s apportionment formula for any general tax laid among the States is
State`s pop.
_________ X SUM TO BE RAISED = STATE`S FAIR SHARE
U.S. Pop
FACT
If Congress levies the apportioned tax directly upon the people it turns out to be an equal per capita tax.
FACT
According to 2007 figures, the people of Wyoming contributed $4,724,678,000 in federal taxes which works out to be $9,036.74 per capita. By contrast, the people of California contributed $313,998,874,000 in federal taxes this same year, and this figure works out to be a mere $8,590.18 per capita which is $446.56 less per capita than Wyoming which is almost $23 BILLION less then California is required to pay under the rule of apportionment.
FACT
The people of CA paid less per capita than a total of 18 States: New York, Texas, Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Washington, Connecticut, Maryland, Colorado, Arkansas , Nebraska, Delaware, Rhode Island, New Mexico and Wyoming.
FACT
Although California got its one man one vote under the rule of apportionment, it was delinquent in paying its one vote one dollar under the rule of apportionment and paid less per capita than the above mentioned 18 States.
BIG FACT
The pinko politicians out in California have not only bankrupted their own state’s treasury and robbed their citizens blind, they are not paying their state’s FAIR SHARE into the federal treasury relative to their massive pinko electoral college vote and will use it to elect a pinko president who likewise has been robbing our federal treasury!.
Our country is being taken over by pinko progressive politicians without a shot being fired.
JWK
"To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen and with the other to bestow upon favored individuals, to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes [Obama’s Solyndra/Chevy Volt/Fisker, Exelon swindling deals] is none the less a robbery because it is done under forms of law and called taxation." ____ Savings and Loan Assc. v. Topeka,(1875).