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Remember that the blue states have the additional burden of funding the red states, therefore allowing the red states to have lower taxes.
Blue states have the additional burden of funding sanctuary cities and giving away our tax dollars to illegal aliens! California alone spends hundreds of millions, if not billions, for services for illegal aliens while those illegal aliens send billions of dollars out of California to their relatives back in Mexico and central America.
Also, the U.S. southeastern red states contain the highest concentration of black Americans who typically recieve federal funding (welfare, food stamps, etc.) at a much higher percentage than any other racial group, and those black Americans usually vote democrat.
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Speaking for my state, it’s all about unfounded pension obligations which goes back nearly 70 years. . Illinois is one of 7 states with Constitutions that guarantee accrued public benefits cannot be reduced.
Unlike the Federal Government, a state can’t print money.
Unlike a municipal government, a state cannot file for bankruptcy protection.
The current governor seems to be banking on the legalization of marijuana to save the state. Unless and until surrounding states , Ky, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa and Missouri ( separated by the Mississippi River) make weed legal, there will be interstate trafficking. Some of these states continue to oppose medical marijuana.
Wont the markets 'bubble burst' erase most of the pension obligation when the dollar gets devalued?
If your pension is $100 but it is only buys $10 dollars worth of goods and services the correction has essentially cut the pension benefit by 90%.
The exact amount the experts say need to be reduced by to avoid nonpayment...
Let's come up with solutions rather than pointing fingers. Both parties cause financial problems, at least at the national level.
The solution is smaller federal government. Most of states actually send more money to support big federal government. We've had administration after administration over spending and enlarging the government with the current administration taking it to the extremes. It's a drain on the people and the states.
Remember that the blue states have the additional burden of funding the red states, therefore allowing the red states to have lower taxes.
While this is true, it's not a red state vs blue state thing. That's a common misconception. There's red states that are not draining from Americans. What it really is, is the Southern states (with the exception of 1 or 2) that just happen to be red that are holding the rest of America back.
That's why this thread is not taking off. If this was a thread relating to a perceived threat to race, gender, or sexuality, it would be a 10 page long echo chamber by now.
They're working on vocabulary. They recently managed to make "white supremacist" as innocuous as they did "racist" before it.
New Jersey as dead last which doesnt surprise me. Chris Christie turned the state around and actually kept our family here after 8 years its only taken Phil Murphy (D) to completely destroy the state with his spend and tax montra.
And notice how the states (except for Oregon) with the lowest taxpayer burden are red states.
... and many of those red states with low state tax burdens also receive a lot more federal assistance than they send to Washington DC. California has a high burden but at least we pay our own way, generating more federal revenue than we take in.
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