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   From: Brewster4@yahoo.com   
      
   Cut the welfare off the welfare red states and watch them die,   
   killing each other like animals. But before that happens, I need   
   to be aprehended, butfucked tortured and executed within the laws   
   of California, before I go on one of the many right wing NRA   
   shooting sprees that will inevitely happen again this coming   
   year..   
      
      
   Red States = Welfare States.   
      
   A recent report in the New York Times ("Even Critics of Safety Net   
   Increasingly Depend On It", February 11, 2012) finds that more   
   "red states" than "blue states" get more federal tax dollars than   
   they pay taxes to the federal government.  Citing 2010 Census and   
   IRS data, the Times reports that the 50 states and the District of   
   Columbia, on average, received $1.29 in federal spending for every   
   federal tax dollar they paid.   
    Nineteen Republican/Red states received more than $1 in federal   
    spending   
   for every tax dollar they sent to Washington, whereas 16   
   Democratic/Blue states did.  Conversely, only three Republican/Red   
   states received less than $1 for every $1 of taxes they paid   
   (Nebraska, Arkansas, and Texas) while 13 Democratic/Blue states   
   received less than they paid in.   
      
   States receiving the most federal money for every dollar in taxes   
   paid are:   
      
   1. New Mexico, $2.63 (Blue)   
      
   2. West Virginia, $2.57 (Red)   
      
   3. Mississippi, $2.47 (Red)   
      
   4. District of Columbia, $2.41 (Blue)   
      
   5. Hawaii, $2.38 (Blue)   
      
   6. Alabama, $2.03 (Red)   
      
   7. Alaska, $1.93 (Red)   
      
   8. Montana, $1.92 (Red)   
      
   8. South Carolina, $1.92 (Red)   
      
   10. Maine, $1.78 (Blue)   
      
   One explanation for this apparent contradictory fact (those Red   
   states sure are moaning about deficits, dead-beat layabouts   
   collecting welfare and Medicaid, etc) is that most of the Red   
   states are rural, and rural states are more likely to receive   
   federal monies.   
      
   Believe it or not, California ranked 43rd in this comparison.  For   
   every dollar Californians paid in federal taxes, people in the   
   state received $0.83 in federal spending.   
      
   It doesn't look like folks in the Red States are willing to give   
   up their Social Security, Medicare benefits, and earned income tax   
   credits.  They just want someone else to do it!   
      
   And don't forget California, driven into a debt crisis at the   
   hands of a Republican named Arnold Schwarzenegge.   From creating   
   the great depression to creating our current fiscal cliff and   
   recession, Rightists are to blame for all of our debt problems.   
   Besides being criminals, liars and subversives, many say they   
   shouldn't be allowed to participate in the democratic process at   
   all because they are the enemy of humanity.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)