This whole conversation started upthread with someone not believing that the blue states tend to pay more into the treasury than they get back.
blue states do pay in more than they get back. it is a redistribution of wealth.
mentioning it was not intended to cause hostility, only to point out the money engine of the blue states is stalling, hence money will begin drying up to the red states
“This whole conversation started upthread with someone not believing that the blue states tend to pay more into the treasury than they get back.”
My point is that such a statement is pure propaganda because it fails to acknowledge that some of the spending in red states is for the benefit of blue states; military spending being one of them and roadways being another.
Colorado has NORAD and the Federal Center, both located here in the center of the nation for protection. Employees at those locations pay income taxes to their respective home States. But that dollar figure isn’t counted by the propagandists.
Also, we buy things from all States at those locations but the liberal propaganda fails to consider that. For instance, one place I know here in Colorado uses a $100,000 device that it purchases from California. Liberals will count that $100,000 as payment to Colorado.
The liberals wackos only say that blue states lose because by twisting the numbers and only telling a partial truth can they seem to be better. Propaganda is nothing but telling a lie or a half truth, which is also a form of a lie. This blue states get less is nothing but a half-truth.
If you want to play truthful then state welfare programs and their expenditures and not throw in the spending that even the blue states benefit from, unless you’d like us to withhold military protections.