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Originally Posted by GregW
I would remove ALL taxes, including state, county and local, and replace them with an Income Tax based on all income from all sources with a 90th percentile deduction. the tax would be collected on a Federal level and half would be redistributed to the states on a per capita basis. The states could then redistribute then as they saw fit.
Not only would this place the burden of operating the country on the people that own and control it the insane redistribution of Federal money from the Blue States to the Red states would cease.
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What about the Blue counties in Red states?
The poorest county in the US is Buffalo County in South Dakota....voted Democrat
The 2nd poorest county in the US is Shannon County in South Dakota.......voted Democrat
The 3rd poorest county in the US is Starr County in Texas..........voted Democrat
The 4th poorest county in the US is Zeibach County in South Dakota.......voted Democrat
The 5th poorest county in the US is Todd County in South Dakota.........voted Democrat
The 6th poorest county in the US is Sioux County in North Dakota.........voted Democrat
The 7th poorest county in the US is Corson County in South Dakota.......voted Democrat
The 9th poorest county in the US is Maverick County in Texas..........voted Democrat
The 10th poorest county in the US is Apache County in Arizona........voted Democrat
Well, let's go to some counties in the Southeast, shall we? After all, our friends in the Northeast love to rag on the southerners, right? (FYI; I was born and raised in New Jersey)
The 15th poorest county in the US is East Carroll Parish in Louisiana (its poorest)........voted Democrat
The 17th poorest county in the US is Jefferson County in Mississippi (its poorest)........voted Democrat
Let's look at that crazy Right-wing state of Texas.
The 12 poorest county in the US is Willacy County....voted Democrat
The 13th poorest county in the US is Hudspeth County......voted REPUBLICAN (by 90 votes)
The 14th poorest county in the US is Presidio County........voted Democrat
The 16th poorest county in the US is LaSalle County........voted Democrat
The 4th richest county in the US is Hunterdon County in New Jersey...voted Republican
The 8th richest county in the US is Fauquier County in Virginia..........voted Republican
The 14th richest county in the US is Morris County in New Jersey.....voted Republican
The 16th richest county in the US is Calvert County in Maryland.......voted Republican
The 21st richest county in the US is Anne Arundel County in Maryland...voted Republican
The 22nd richest county in the US is Carroll County in Maryland.....voted Republican
The 24th richest county in the US is Sussex County in New Jersey.....voted Republican
The top and 3rd richest county in New York voted Democrat. By a very slim margin.
Anyway, so when a Red State gets aid, it will more than likely go to a blue county since as shown above, the poorest county's are blue. Plus, a lot of the aid taken from Blue states, comes from Red counties.