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According to the latest ranking of states by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, the most fiscally sound states in the nation are all low-tax, GOP strongholds, while the 10 least-solvent states are almost all high-tax and heavily Democratic.
Not surprising. People are leaving the blue states and moving to the better run red states. When Illinois, Connecticut, and New Jersey go bankrupt, people will flood out of those states.
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According to the latest ranking of states by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, the most fiscally sound states in the nation are all low-tax, GOP strongholds, while the 10 least-solvent states are almost all high-tax and heavily Democratic.
There is less 2 points separating texas which is in the top 10 from Mississippi and Rhode island which are in the bottom 10?
It is like people talking about obesity rates and comparing the states, the states with lowest obesity rates have hideous rates in the 22-25% range.
Can you imagine those 20-25% rates in japan , Singapore, south korea, probably Scandinavia as well, many east asian nations are usually in the low single digits.
Studies also show Red states take in more federal money, while Blue states give more federal money. Red States are welfare leeches.
Again and again it has to be said, you cannot use a simple comparison of where federal money is going without breaking down where that money is going. NM always top these lists, Sandia and Los Alamos by themselves add about $2600 in per capita federal spending in that state.While that funding will help with local economies the primary beneficiary of that funding is the entire nation.
I'm just a messenger sharing the results of their analyses. You're welcome to run your own analysis. The data is all there if you click through the studies. Please share your results after running it - I would be interested in it.
You can post links all day you if you want but at the end of the day the analysis for something like this is extremely complex. Once you get beyond federal spending on things like the military, roads, and other things that can be attributed to benefits for the entire nation the next big issue that arises is just because tax dollars were collected in a state does not necessarily mean it was generated in that state.
You can go on and on about problems with trying to make this comparison.
I cant find much data at all on any of those links other than federal employees it doesnt talk about what percentage are miltary, no exact numbers on how much money any state actually receives. I dont really expect much non biased discussion from articles entitled
The 7 Biggest Deadbeat States Who Mooch Off Taxpayers All Vote Republican
The states the most and least dependent on the federal government -
Red states more dependent on federal government -
GOP States Are The Most Dependent On Government | HuffPost
Blue state, red face: Guess who benefits more from your taxes?
Most Red States Take More Money From Washington Than They Put In – Mother Jones
'Red State Socialism' graphic says GOP-leaning states get lion's share of federal dollars
Its actually very hard to find actual stats on the budget or much of a breakdown at all, in fact tax foundation differs from other studies Federal Spending in California
Finding budget info is not easy and non of these articles really present much of a breakdown at all, wall street 24/7 , business insider. wallet hub are pretty light weight blogs it seems
on the books has a budget app that I like and its a decent site but almost every budget web site is very hard to navigate and find real numbers
I am just tired of hearing this crap from people, not you but other posters, that certain states are mooching from people who never served in the miltary or sacrificed anything, I pay taxes in two states that would probably be in the g20 by themselves and send an enormous amount of tax revenue and provides alot of the military as well, I dont think miltary service or pension pay we get is mooching no more than social security recipients receiving money that people paid into .
Military service is not spread among the regions equally at all
Almost 44 percent of all military recruits come from the South
If you want my opinion, I don't think there is much good from this kind of discussion. We shouldn't really be worrying about who is "leeching" or "contributing" more. We're all Americans, it doesn't matter to me, personally. And even if I as a resident of CA contribute more than someone in MS, I'm fine with it.
I think the reason it comes up often, though, is because each side attacks the other (e.g. conservatives claiming that all democratic states are economic disasters, and liberals claiming that all republican states are leeches).
You can post links all day you if you want but at the end of the day the analysis for something like this is extremely complex. Once you get beyond federal spending on things like the military, roads, and other things that can be attributed to benefits for the entire nation the next big issue that arises is just because tax dollars were collected in a state does not necessarily mean it was generated in that state.
You can go on and on about problems with trying to make this comparison.
You're not wrong. Which is why each analysis differs in its findings.
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