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Originally Posted by PaulS
No, anger - you want a discussion and then throw things in your posts ("stupid liberal policies", etc.) that frankly are insulting. Why don't you think about that b/f you come back w/another snide response.
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If a state that is bankrupt, thinks it's a wise decision to spend $550 million to build a 9 mile road connecting 2 towns that no one wants anything to do with, I'm pretty comfortable calling that "stupid". I'll be more careful in my wording, though, sorry..
So if you have any data suggesting that the state-level debt crisis is not driven by liberal economic theory (like giving unions a blank check), but rather the trade deficit some states have with other states, I would like to see it.
Here in CT, last I saw, we get back about 70 cents of every federal tax dollar we pay to the IRS. That does hurt my state. However, most of that deficit is made up by the fact that CT taxes its citizens more than most other states, plus we get huge $$ from the casinos.
In other words, CT does not suffer from a shortage of tax dollars flowing into Hartford - that's not the problem. No more than you can say Mike Tyson went bankrupt because he didn't make enough money to support himself. These liberal states, like Mike Tyson, are not suffering from a lack of revenue. They are suffering from the effects of reckless spending.
The problem is that even though CT had a fortune to work with, liberal programs require more than that. The same thing can be seen, by those who care to look, at what's happening in Europe. The Europeans are finding out, too late for their own good, that policies which punish worh ethic and reward sloth, are short-sighted and counterproductive. Those liberal programs do not work
unless you have the proper ratio of people paying in and people collecting out...they especially do not work when you have massive numbers of Baby Boomers who are turning 65 (10,000 a day for the next 15+ years, that's a fact, 10,000 Boomers a day turn 65), yet will survive for another 25 years.
That will be the straw that breaks the liberal camel's back.