ATR Finds Lower Taxes, Less Government in States Gaining Congressional Seats (Tea Party Time)

ATR ^ | 11/16/10 | Joshua Culling

[Andrea19]

...There are eight states projected to gain at least one Congressional seat. Texas will gain four seats and Florida will gain two. Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington are poised to gain one seat each. The biggest losers will be New York and Ohio – both projected to lose two seats – while Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania are on track to lose one seat each.

The average top personal income tax rate among gainers is 116 percent lower than among losers. The total state and local tax burden is nearly one-third lower, as is per capita government spending. In eight of ten losers, workers can be forced to join a union as a condition of employment. In 7 of the 8 gainers, workers are given a choice whether to join or contribute financially to a union...

Read more: http://www.atr.org/atr-finds-lower-taxes-less-government-a5657#ixzz15Tm8CScy

[Andrea19]

Hopefully the Liberals in ossifying states will just rust away.

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[arthurus]

116 percent lower

Interesting numbers here.116% lower. Well. Does that mean that the state pays TO the people 16% of what the high tax states take FROM the people? How do you have 100% LESS without the result being 0 (zero)? 116% less than anything has to be a negative number.

[grayhog]

Nice to think of this with regard to the electoral college in 2012. TX, GA, SC and UT are layups for the repubs, so that’s +7, FL and NV are pretty likely, while AZ flip flops and WA usually goes Dem. All in, probably a net of at least 8 or 9 for the GOP in 2012. Looked at another way, these gains should more than make up for us always losing CT’s 7 electoral votes.

[GitmoSailor]

........BUMP.......

[screaminsunshine]

Being in the Tea Party is so easy, and so much fun. They don’t know what to do.