“California alone is responsible for almost 20%.”
Texas is the 3rd highest recipient, net, of all the states and they are held up as “low tax and fiscally responsible”.
South Carolina is the highest recipient, per capita.
Texas receives about $1.50 for every dollar of income tax collected there.
South Carolina receives $8! for every dollar of income tax collected there.
CA, NY and Il are net donor states...paying more in income tax than they receive back.
Who subsidizes whom?
The ignorance and class warfare on Free Republic is astounding. There was a time when it was not tolerated.
Now we have piles of fools who are eager to “soak the rich”...you know, legitimately middle class earners.
Shame on you scumbags.
Such simplistic $/state numbers simply don’t tell the full story, and painting this as “soak the rich” is either ignorant or disingenuous.
A small state such as SC has an outsized effect from their large military presence. Similarly, Dem policies for the last 50 years have led to their being a large welfare-consuming state. Both of these tend to make them net recipients of Federal spending, on a statewide basis.
Presenting this as CA subsidizing SC, as if SC is somehow irresponsible, is patently absurd.
Simple measures such as net Federal inflow/outflow are nearly useless for anything other than demagoguery.
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