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ROI on Investment Govornment as a Business; Investing more in the small states?
Topic Started: Jun 20 2016, 04:50 AM (522 Views)
Pat
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Corky52
Jun 20 2016, 07:31 AM
Pat,
Who decides how much money from the federal government goes to a state? Several states get many dollars more from the feds than they put in, isn't that a loss? What business would support and maintain a money losing branch year after year? Some new business model?


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I don't know the answer Corky. I do know that Washington state and Nevada taxpayers pay out far more in federal taxes than they receive in federal programs. In fact, i believe the Western states all share in that distinction.
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So Cork, what do you think the answer is. Toss us a bone.
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Jun 20 2016, 09:52 AM
Corky52
Jun 20 2016, 07:31 AM
Pat,
Who decides how much money from the federal government goes to a state? Several states get many dollars more from the feds than they put in, isn't that a loss? What business would support and maintain a money losing branch year after year? Some new business model?


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I don't know the answer Corky. I do know that Washington state and Nevada taxpayers pay out far more in federal taxes than they receive in federal programs. In fact, i believe the Western states all share in that distinction.
I don't think so. In fact you might say the bulk of the red States prefer socialism.

Money recieved for every one dollar of taxes paid
Of the twenty worst states, 16 are either Republican dominated or conservative states. Let's go through the top twenty.

New Mexico: $2.03
Mississippi: $2.02
Alaska: $1.84
Louisiana: $1.78
West Virginia: $1.76
North Dakota: $1.68
Alabama: $1.66
South Dakota: $1.53
Kentucky: $1.51
Virginia: $1.51
Montana: $1.47
Hawaii: $1.44
Maine: $1.41
Arkansas: $1.41
Oklahoma: $1.36
South Carolina: $1.35
Missouri: $1.32
Maryland: $1.30
Tennessee: $1.27
Idaho: $1.21



http://www.businessinsider.com/red-states-are-welfare-queens-2011-8
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Acknowledge the problem and then expect good people to act in a rational manner. View the spending and evaluate it in view of what's best for the nation and state needs. Question the pork and giveaways to people, help within reason those with real needs. There is no magic answer, only good people trying to do right and bad people being greedy.

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Jun 20 2016, 09:45 AM
Pipe dreams are funny.
It appears that anything Neutral either doesn't understand or wants to play like he doesn't understand is "funny" to Neutral.
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What ever happened to the Obama's and the left's liberal values of wealth distribution to aid the less fortunate? Why the inconsistency?
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LOL Corky led some off their useful idiot status for sure.
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Jun 20 2016, 07:10 PM
What ever happened to the Obama's and the left's liberal values of wealth distribution to aid the less fortunate? Why the inconsistency?
Isn't that what Trump and many of his supporters want to end?
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See now Colo is getting very confused. lol
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Jun 20 2016, 08:14 PM
See now Colo is getting very confused. lol
How so? Ban asked a question and I answered it.
Edited by colo_crawdad, Jun 20 2016, 08:21 PM.
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