itfitzme
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"Your "spending" includes things like SS payments, military pay and payments for resources/services"
You are wrong there. You simply decided you don't like the way it turns out, then made up bullshit about why it must be wrong. It is exactly the behavior I've come to expect from you. You don't follow through on actually research.
The data I am using does not include direct payments, military pay, or whatever. It is monies to the states and local governments. We can add in federal monies going to the military and OASDI. That's a good idea. It is, after all, still Federal dollars that ends up in the local economy.
Regardless, the conservative states take larger proportion of money from the federal government than they put in in tax revenues. You can make all the excuses you want, but it doesn't change the facts. It doesn't change the fact that the red state economies are substantially bolstered by Federal dollars.
And there is a reason that the states that vote Democrat put it more money in tax revenues, because they produce more in real dollar gross state product.
Producing more value results in paying more in federal taxes. $ is a numerical measure that is what it is. You can't change it by using emotional bullshit like "socialism", "communism", and on and on. Nobody gives a crap about your retarded fixation with the Soviet Union. The cold war ended along time ago. Try and catch up. You are living in a fantasy land.
And, none of that has anything to do with where seniors retire either. We should add them it. It is, after all, money into the economy.
You are just desperately trying to manipulation the facts to fit what you want to be true. The facts don't make someone a liberal or conservative, they are just the facts. Ignoring the facts does make you stupid.
You can squirm wildly all you want, but the reality is that you are wrong. I'm not making a case for Blue states. I'm just proving that you are wrong.
You keep claiming you have facts, yet present nothing. I get that it is a bitter pill for you to swallow. But getting all whiny about it won't change anything.
All you have is emotional bullshit that means nothing. That the Democratic states made more money does. You can cherry pick all day long, but this won't change.
They make more money, they pay more taxes, they support themselves and Republican states. California just slipped to only the 9th largest economy in the world.
(you do understand what "real dollars" and "per capita" mean, right?)
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