Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: durasell
Actually, you have it backwards

Really. So NY state will be bailed out. CA most likely will be next. Where do they fall on color map? The tax generating states have always had their funds diverted to the dependent states. Again, this is what led, over many decades, to the first Civil War in the US even though the majority of America believes it was over slavery. That was a Lincoln myth, to whom Obammy aspires.

63 posted on 12/30/2008 5:52:05 PM PST by PistolPaknMama (Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't! --FReeper airborne)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies ]


To: PistolPaknMama

In general New York generates a huge amount of taxes far more than most states...so that’s ridiculous.


69 posted on 12/30/2008 5:56:27 PM PST by bronxboy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 63 | View Replies ]

To: PistolPaknMama

Here’s the Tax Foundation link:

http://www.taxfoundation.org/files/ftsbs-timeseries-20071016.swf

Bingo! If NY and CA go down, then the money dries up for the dependent states. Look at where the federal money was spent during the Depression. It wasn’t in states where there was plenty of private funds — remember, Empire State Building and Rockfeller Center were both built with private money at the height of the Depression. The Federal money went to rural communities via TVA and other programs.


74 posted on 12/30/2008 5:59:48 PM PST by durasell
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 63 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson