Get Ready For Blue States To Demand Big Bailouts

American Thinker ^ | 4 Apr, 2026 | Mike McDaniel

[MtnClimber]

Feckless blue states are spending like there is no tomorrow, but tomorrow will come, and they’ll be demanding red state money to pay their debts.

I begin by presenting three trends. One might even call them inevitabilities, and one might argue they’re not trends at all, but present realities that are intertwined and will tend to collapse in on each other, inevitably leading to the third inevitability.

The first trend is a Congress of feckless fools:

I’ll get to Lippencott’s final question momentarily, but our Congress does seem unable to accomplish anything of consequence, such as the SAVE Act, which will make election fraud not necessarily impossible, but more inconvenient for the Democrat party, which arguably cannot win an election without massive fraud. A paralyzed Congress can’t even pay the Department of Homeland Security at a time when the danger of a massive terrorist attack within our shaky borders is at an all-time high. Democrats don’t care. If thousands of Americans die, they’ll blame it on Trump, with the help of their media propaganda arm.

While Congress does little to benefit America or Americans, its members excel at giving their power to unelected bureaucrats who, through rulemaking and nonsensical interpretation of congressional language and intent, run the bureaucratic state, which rules by ever-increasing rules and regulations.

The ATF was recently caught prosecuting Americans for possessing braced pistols, even though the prior ATF decision criminalizing them was rescinded. Congress could, by doing what it supposedly exists to do—legislating—resolve that once and for all, but it can’t even pass the SAVE America Act, which has as much as 90% public approval. Circa April 2026, apparently, 100% approval is required to pass anything, and it’s doubtful Congress could be roused to act even then.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: americansphincter; leftism; liberaltruth; tellthemtofoadiaf

[central_va]

You’re assumption that the taxpayers in the red states want the Feds to spend (waste) all that money in their state is wrong.

[Brian Griffin]

WIKI

[Utah “Republican” Senator] Curtis ran for the Utah State Senate in 2000 as a Democrat against Curt Bramble, losing 33% to 66%.

From 2002 to 2003, he served as vice chairman and chairman of the Utah County Democratic Party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Curtis

[marktwain]

California and New York are net surplus, not deficit.

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It is a silly way to look at things. You have a lot of high earners paying Social Security and Medicare taxes in high tax states like California and New York.

When they retire, they move out of state to lower tax states, and they take their payouts in Social Security to those states with them.

Thus, people in California pay in a lot of Social Security taxes, but people move to other states and receive Social Security payouts.

The idea of aggregating federal taxes by state and comparing it to federal spending by state is simply bogus.

The only way it makes sense is to look at individuals and why it is that way.

[Brian Griffin]

It is technically possible to build a nice house for $50,000.

[Brian Griffin]

So my Social Security belongs to Maryland and Virginia?

I thought it belonged to the federal government, and I was hoping that the federal government would remember I’m now an old man.

[marktwain]

I thought it belonged to the federal government, and I was hoping that the federal government would remember I’m now an old man.

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Exactly. It goes to the individual, not the state.

That is the point, Federal taxes are mostly individual taxes. Federal payouts are for national programs like defense and roads, and now, for a majority of them, payments to individuals such as in Social Security, or Military retirements and Civil Service retirements.

I suspect the numbers are old, in any case. Perhaps they are including tariffs collected in California as “Federal taxes” “ now.

[Brian Griffin]

Many foreign governments would welcome productive Americans, but would refuse entry to moochers and criminals.

Remember the $50,000 house genie can’t be put back in the bottle.

The productive are getting fleeced.

Basta!

[Brian Griffin]

My Democratic neighbors support safety nets, not hammocks.

[Bernard]

Ask your AI how the revenue number for that national debt deficit is calculated. Ask some specific questions, like "when Walmart files a quarterly 941, how much of that tax liability to credited to Arkansas, and how much to the other states that Walmart operates in?"

There could be more detailed questions as well, but start with that one.

[FoxInSocks]

Our do-nothing Congress might admit there’s a problem. They’re great at talking, awful at useful action.

Actually, they’re terrible at talking also. I can’t stand listening to them prattle on. They’re ideological zealots, playback machines, and they’re collectively dumb as a box of rocks.

[Lockbox]

2029 Democratic Governors meeting…. “We are asking for Red States to bail out our beloved Blue States….. and those fleeing Blue States to exsape taxes on the rich, nice try, we’re coming after you again!”

[FreedomNotSafety]

They will get the bail outs. Trump would help if he is in office. He wanted them to have SALT deductions which helps them transfer their high taxes onto low tax red states via the federal income tax. Ironically their high income taxes will help lead to their financial crisis. It drives spending up (spend 1.2x for every dollar of revenue) and revenue down (taxpayers leave).

[central_va]

Your TDS speculation is worth squat.

[lgjhn23]

The rest of the country should NOT be liable, giving funding, bailing out or supporting the commuist-run blue states whatsoever. These communist basstids made their stew, let em simmer in it for a good long time. You know, so the “juices and spices” they dreamed up marinate real good with the general public...what’s left of em. Spit.

[jeffersondem]

“I actually expect some sort of bailout of the Democrat states, done as part of a deal. The GOP gets something. The Democrats get their bailout.”

Bailing out of an aircraft is usually a once-in-a-lifetime event.

What is planned by blue states is a forever transfer of wealth from red states to blue socialist states.

It is the equivalent of giving every blue state the authority to print as much money as they want; except it will be routed through Washington which will skim off probably 25 percent for whatever.

[napscoordinator]

Looking at this, it appears many red and blue states together are in trouble.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Trump’s a deal maker-upper hand. It will be fun to watch. The question becomes when?

[dljordan]

The donors are in charge.

[dljordan]

“We are paying them for doing nothing. Who are the real idiots?”

If we don’t pay them they will send armed thugs to arrest us, IRS judges will throw us in prison while confiscating everything we own.

[napscoordinator]

It’s strange how the entire state revenue works to begin with. 50 states send money to the federal government. Then the federal government turns around and gives 50 states money. Why don’t states just keep the money they collect?