Blue states pay the red states.....

Fortune ^ | Nov. 29th issue | Matt Miller

[Last Dakotan]

I dropped my subscription to Fortune ten years ago, haven't missed it.

[Rastus]

Well, Matt, the red-staters are doing everything they can to help your bunch. They want lower taxes and smaller government. Obviously, given your article, that's more of a boon to the blue-staters, right? Of course, until now, you blue-staters WANTED high taxes and big government.

[kittymyrib]

CA gave the President the most votes...5.2 million...more than Texas did. Most of the counties in the "blue states" were red. So this whole scenario is just a liberal brain f*rt.

[maine-iac7]

Fine. We'll make you blue staters pay for your food.

LOL

basically, that's what I've been saying ever since Geraldine Ferraro mad the vacuous remark about how the red states couldn't exist without the blue...

I said - without the blue, our dinner tables will still be full. What'll be on theirs?

(Course, I live in a ;o( blue state (but in a little red spot!) but my woods are full of game, I have a garden, got lots of well and pond and river water, got wood to burn in my stove. Let's see, what do I need from the Blues? Umm -umm- um

[Tribune7]

Or maybe those blue staters are just going to have stop electing big spending libs as their representatives.

[dangus]

WHERE'S THE BARF ALERT!

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[gov_bean_ counter]

I don't expect a liberal Democrat blue stater to understand this, but food, clothing and housing costs to income ratios stay reasonable consistent throughout the United States. What the heck good is a huge income if the relative cost of living is the same or even less elsewhere?

In my world it is all about the bottom line.

[JudyinCanada]

I heard this on Rush this week and thought it was great. I guess the blue states will be united behind the Bush tax cuts now.

[Ed_in_NJ]

"the red states elected President Bush and sent the blues into a psychic tailspin"

Actually, it was the lies, hate-mongering and fear-mongering of the rats that sent their sheeple into the 'psychic tailspin.'

[Wil H]

Well that is a beautiful thing !

The Democrats are the champions of redistribution of wealth so they should be ecstatic....

[AlienCrossfirePlayer]

I thought the Roe effect and redistribution were the policies Dems wanted above all others. Could it be that the class warfare that they practice is against themselves?

[Ethyl]

Ahem

It is the Blue Big Cities not the Blue States



And who lives there? Ignorant wellfare supporters and their ilk.

[Clemenza]

You forget the latte sippers and the pederasts.

[bad company]

plus subsidies for farms

Good idea, let's get back to fair market value for food.

[TypeZoNegative]

Actually, that red state blue state diagram is misleading. If you break it down by county, you'll see that where you have the bigger taxpayers are where you have the redder areas, and those red counties are the ones putting in money and the blue counties are collecting. Case in point, I'll put a map up of Minnesota (Colors are flipped, BTW). The heavily R counties surround the heavily D counties (With exception to the northern counties, which are longshore uniontistas that are forced to vote D even though they're R's by heart) If you look at Ramsey county (The smallest county on the map, which is shaped like a saddle) and Hennepin county (Which is the much larger, roundish shaped county left of Ramsey) You notice that the areas around those counties are heavily R. And even though Hennepin county has a red tinge, it's not as red as Saint Louis county (The largest, box shaped one in the northeast.) because the counties surrounding the large, communist city in the middle of that county (Minneapolis) trend Republican. The money doesn't come from red states (Or in this case blue) it comes from red counties, and are redistrubited to blue cities.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Lots of discussion here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1282947/posts

[rogue yam]

This is dumb. States don't pay. Individuals pay.

[Resolute]

It is practically dogma among (modern) liberals and progressives that the "rich" should pay more in than the nonrich and that the nonrich should get more out than the "rich." These data show with high correlation that the "rich" states pay more in and get less out. By the Left's own dogma, that is exactly the way that it should be. This analysis (the one by Fortune) and others like it expose yet again the hypocrisy that is rampant on the Left. Their dogma and rules are always for other people, not their own beknighted selves.

[HawaiianGecko]

Red people support blue people, always have, always will, period, 'nuff said...
Now if the blue states were smart enough to have a half dozen defense contractors, a few military bases, the main GSA warehouse, four ammunition plants and various other government funded organizations like a good ole state such as Missouri has, then they would receive more $$$ than they pay.