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So you are saying the states that pay the most in taxes should decide who is president?
So in other words, you think the blue states should be able to buy the election.
Your true colors are showing, and it isn't very becoming.
I'm saying the states that have the most people also pay the most and are least represented, resulting in the tyranny of the minority. There are ways around this and we will likely see them over time since Democrats have won six out of the last seven popular votes. Democrats in blue locations earn the most, pay the most and are represented the least. Name the Republican locations Trump has hotels.
I'm saying the states that have the most people also pay the most and are least represented, resulting in the tyranny of the minority. There are ways around this and we will likely see them over time since Democrats have won six out of the last seven popular votes. Democrats in blue locations earn the most, pay the most and are represented the least. Name the Republican locations Trump has hotels.
None of this is true. Just like when you told us your relative was going to move to Canada if Trump won.
I'm saying the states that have the most people also pay the most and are least represented, resulting in the tyranny of the minority. There are ways around this and we will likely see them over time since Democrats have won six out of the last seven popular votes. Democrats in blue locations earn the most, pay the most and are represented the least. Name the Republican locations Trump has hotels.
Really ? Please enlighten us or does only the Illuminati know ?
Trump has hotels in Florida ... did Clinton win the state ?
It's no wonder that flyover states love the electoral college. It overrepresents them electorally while they pay the least federally.
You also seemed to love the Electoral College when we were talking about Obama.
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You mean the two elections where President Obama won by 8:00 p.m. (365 electoral votes) and 8:15 p.m. (332 electoral votes) respectively? You mean those two elections where it wasn't even close?
Trumps policies will reduce the illegal population, the illegal population is included in the census count and that will occur 2020. One estimate suggests California could lose up to 5 House seats, Texas 2, Washington 1 and New York 2. Those seats will be reallocated to red/purplish states, all ten went for Trump this election.
In case you are unaware they will also lose an equal amount of electoral college votes and federal funding when population is considered. Enjoy!
It's no wonder CA has become a sanctuary State. They have much to lose when the illegals leave.
The OP includes the sourcing from the NY Times but Trump supporters tend to not read those sources.
The fact that some state receive more per capita dollars is not what is in question. It's how that single number is being used to represent what is a very complex calculation that is the issue.
As I have already noted Sandia National lab in NM adds $1200 in per capita spending for that state, undoubtedly NM enjoys some economic benefit of that funding but primary beneficiary is the entire country.
I-80 connects San Francisco with NYC and also goes through many low population states, the coast to coast commerce is the primary beneficiary.
To complicate things even further the direct and indirect tax revenue generated by operation like oil drilling in ND may not be attributed to ND.
Trying to use a single raw data point is just stupidity.
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Yes, it is truly disgusting how much power Montana has.
We are a big state with a small population, yet we have 2 Senators (just like every other state). The Party "gerrymandered" the state so that our House member has to represent the entire state. We get a whopping huge THREE electoral votes!
Wyoming is in the same boat, nearly identical, in fact.
Oh, boo hoo, you lost. Deal With it or leave the country.
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