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Originally Posted by EastwardBound
Care to show the stats on that claim? Notice I'm not attacking you personally, as you do.
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Not being strong in economics is not a personal attack. The trailer and shack owning status in WV is not comparable to actual equity in other places. When I was there in the 70's land could be had for $100 an acre - sometimes less.
The problem was - the land was worthless.
Would you rather own an acre in WV or one on the Gulf Coast of Florida or near the San Diego waterfront?
This stuff is quite obvious.
If you post foolish things expect to be debated on it. Post some sense and many will likely agree with you.
Here is one source:
https://mic.com/articles/90297/the-f...her#.WdKDXdgTN
"According to a new George Washington University study,
West Virginia receives more money per person from federal government programs than the rest of the country. The Mountain State gets 26.2% of its income from programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid — well above the national average of 16.7%."
And, BTW, those same old Confed states take the most after WV:
"As a general trend, the study also found that southern states are much more likely to receive the most federal money — after West Virginia, the next four are:
Mississippi, 24.0%; Arkansas, 22.8%; Kentucky, 22.4%; and Alabama, 21.8%"
I'm glad to "learn ya" as we said in WV, but when you talk "welfare"....that's not exactly the same! Much of this money is in Medicare, Medicaid, Federal Programs for poverty, etc....you may not classify it as "welfare"...which is a broad term with no definition.
Bottom line is I pay - and I just got my tax return tonight and can assure you that I am paying big......
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Tax revenue primarily comes from highly developed urban regions like the Northeast, California and the big Great Lakes cities like Chicago. That wealth flows to rural areas — which happen to be predominantly GOP — and the South, which is generally much poorer than the rest of the country"
I was always taught that one shouldn't bite the hands that feed them. This is the opposite case.
WV is bad enough economically...can you imagine if over 1/4 of the entire income was taken away?
Put another way, WV is the most Socialist State in the USA. It's also the "biggest taker"....
Unfortunately we live in opposite world these days where lies are truth and so on. But these numbers are too large to be rounding errors.