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It's filtered through the federal government--and now it's worse because blue states are subject to vengeance--National Guard and ICE tearing up their cities, FEMA aid refused, Medicaid funds withheld after spurious, unproven accusations of fraud.
I'm a little surprised you haven't come across this before, but generally speaking, in the US, wealthier areas subsidize poorer ones. This happens at the federal level, as the previous link has shown. It also happens at the state level, with wealthy counties and municipalities subsidizing poorer ones.
And now Noem-replacement MarkWayne is proposing that DHS refuse to process incoming tourists through customs to spite so-called sanctuary cities.
How is all that going to wash out when most of the wealthy tax payers leave. I think what many are missing is the wealthy did not get that way because of blue state policies or they wouldn’t be leaving in droves. It is a little misleading to say blue states are subsidizing red states. Blue state governments will be crying for subsidies from the Federal Government themselves even more the they are now when their tax base shrinks even more.
Sure, and when the red states aren’t getting their subsidies from blue states tax payers anymore they will have to raise their own taxes.
You do know that the rich people who pay federal taxes from blue states will still be paying the same federal taxes when the they move to red states. So actually what ever subsidies you are talking about will still flow to red states and blue states that ran off much of their tax base will be the ones crying for more federal money. How did this misinformation get started that blue states are subsidizing everyone? Look at the deficit in New York City and it’s only going to get worse because people and corporations are leaving.
Yes, the subsidies that actually exist, unlike your fantasy. Those are the subsidies we're talking about.
It's not a strict red/blue dichotomy, as Texas is also a donor state, but yes the facts that have been presented to you show that California and New York are the two biggest donor states [largely due to the fact they are both pretty populous -- I think Delaware is the biggest donor state on a per capita basis]
lol, do you have any idea how far they'd have to fall in order for these stats to reverse?
Tell me you haven't looked at the interstate migration stats without telling me you haven't looked at the interstate migration stats.
www.census.gov
The millions of federal taxpayers in these 'donor' states. These are of course federal taxes we're talking about, not donations.
And they should be distributed equitably. If Trump could get away with not giving one penny to blue states he would. He's trying to get around the requirement to fund Medicaid in blue states by claiming that there's been fraud. Meanwhile, real people have been suffering real pain and dying real deaths because of where they live and who they voted for.
