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Originally Posted by Jim in CT
to help with the pandemic, hell yes. to help fund stupid state spending? hell no.
People in states like SC and TN made tough choices to live within their means. People in CT and Mass spent like lunatics to buy votes and to reward union masters.
Why in god’s name should
anyone in SC or TN be forced to pay for stupid decisions made at the state level in CT or Mass?
Wayne, if i freely chose to live beyond my means and rack up debt, are you responsible to bail me out?
Unbelievable that liberals are whining about this. Poorly run states ( mostly, but not entirely liberal) are responsible for their decisions. leave everyone else the hell alone.
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Unbelievable that conservative states whine about liberal states yet have their hands in the liberal states pockets.
According to estimates by the Rockefeller Institute, from 2015 to 2018 Kentucky — which pays relatively little in federal taxes, because it’s fairly poor, but gets major benefits from programs like Medicare and Social Security — received net transfers from Washington averaging more than $33,000 per person. That was 18.6 percent of the state’s G.D.P.