a fan wrote: ↑Sun May 10, 2020 3:18 pmPeter Brown wrote: ↑Sun May 10, 2020 2:11 pm You miss the point, as ever. You sure you attended an Ivy?
The point, to be very clear, is when your brethren of the Left descend on the board and falsely claim 'blue states pay for red states' (insert Howard Dean scream), that payment imbalance is caused precisely because of blue state-favored entitlement policies. Federally mandated entitlement policies were proposed and passed, and today are favored, by blue state voters, the same ones here making the charge. A little honesty here?
Whew. Good one. Want me to start listing the bills and the votes for you? Pre Covid, Trump signed four massive spending bills totaling just under $4 Trillion in NEW spending. Only $800 Billion went to the military. So that's over $3 Trillion in social programs that are stuffed with handouts to all walks of life in America.
And this, of course, doesn't include a few hundred Billion in cash payments to farmers for...wait for it....nothing.
And you want to pretend that both Republicans and Republicans didn't vote for this money, and don't actually want this money. So your University of Florida last year got $776 million from the Federal government in one single year....and what you're telling us is....they don't want that money.
Great news. Let me know when I can have my tax dollars back!
Peter Brown wrote: ↑Sun May 10, 2020 2:11 pm By the way, it's hilarious to read true Democrat posts where you fall completely for the extremely lazy canard of 'red states would let the poor die'. Red states, far more than blue states, rely on charity and church to rectify perceived income or poverty gaps, not government.
https://www.cbpp.org/sites/default/file ... ing_fl.pdf
You don't understand what your Republican representatives are doing. You're, sadly, buying into their political nonsense. "Gee whiz, we don't actually want this Federal money...but whoops, we keep accidentally voting for it". Riiiiight.
Look, it's simple, but you don't want to hear it. All you have to do is pretend there isn't a Federal Government, and each State is its own country.
What would that look like? Stop with your R's and D's thing, and simply think for yourself for five freaking minutes.
And remember----the Federal government has borrowed Trillions of dollars the last few years, and sent it to all 50 States. So picture that money getting cut off, and each State having to go it alone.
This would be a complete catastrophe for just about every State, and yep, that would include a few Dem States.
But by and large? R States like Mitch McConnell's Kentucky would be beyond hosed. Which, of course, is why ol' Mitchey gleefully signed all of those 4 massive spending bills. His State cannot function without that money.
But you want to ignore all this, and pretend like each State wants to go solo. And part that you don't get it----the more that liberals figure out what it would look like if NY, IL, CA et. al. got to keep allllll that money that they normally send to DC for themselves? The more they are going to want what you are asking for....
And if that happens? Lights out, rural America. And good luck to you and your fellow Floridians who have to figure out how to provide health care to 4 Million+ seniors. What's the first thing you'll do? Raise taxes, of course. And yet you keep claiming that this is what you want.
As many of us here keep saying: great news, when can we start your plan?
Today!
The top five most fiscally solvent states are Nebraska (#1), South Dakota (#2), Tennessee (#3), Florida (#4), and Oklahoma (#5).
The bottom five states in terms of fiscal solvency are Kentucky (#46), Massachusetts (#47), New Jersey (#48), Connecticut (#49), and Illinois (#50). I'm not exactly sure how New York doesn't make that top-5, but at #9, they can make the grade with this pandemic surely.
Almost like there's a pattern...
https://www.mercatus.org/publications/u ... l-rankings
