Comments on: US Federal Tax Dollars Payments/Allotments by State

By: Jack Gavin

Jack Gavin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:33:55 +0000

And people say Jersey is corrupt? Dumb is more like it. 61 cents back on every dollar sent in – sheesh.

Maybe the only way we can get our due is to steal it.

By: thetanman

thetanman — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:18:14 +0000

Yeehaw. If you Yankees were so damn smart, how’s it that EVERYONE is ripping you off. Even us lowly ignorant ‘necks. PJs got it right.

By: Paul Jones

Paul Jones — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:53:45 +0000

One glaring error:

The money received is not all “tax” money. A lot of it is borrowed.

To those who say the Red State voters don’t vote their self-interest: ie they vote for tax-cutters:

those same tax-cutters never cut government spending. That is exactly what the people want: to have their cake and eat it too, then eat some one else’s cake on top of that.

We need good government, not popular government.

By: bergsten

bergsten — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:17:08 +0000

Oh, for Pete’s sake.

The JOB of Senators is to represent their State. The JOB of Congressmen (“Congress-people?”) is to represent their Constituency. Of course, they are voting their self-interest, that’s what they are there for — representin’.

If the “others” are getting more pork per capita than your representatives get, you need new representatives.

You don’t like what them thar “red” states are getting, move there, turn them “blue” and feast away.

By: ThatsNotAll

ThatsNotAll — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:38:12 +0000

This graph is the best evidence yet that Red State voters do vote their self-interest.

It is blue state residents in high income cities such as Boston, NYC and Philadelphia who are paying the highest marginal tax rates and whose taxes are subsidizing lower income but still middle class red state residents.

Self-interest is all about getting more for less and Red State residents have the formula figured out.

By: Rikky

Rikky — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:49:18 +0000

Lugnut, i fully expect this statistic to be leveraged by Dobbs when he runs in 2012. I’ll hazard a guess he’s going to wipe his rear end with Menendez before this is over. Forgive me if I don’t shed a tear for a guy who’s done next to nothing for the state of NJ>

By: Lugnut

Lugnut — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:40:58 +0000

Ah yes, my lovely home state of New Jersey leads the way again. “Trenton makes, the world takes”. The state with the highest taxes in the nation gets the least amount of benefit from them, not only does the state give us the shaft, so does the Federal Government.

Whap!

Thank you sir, may I have another

Whap!

Thank you sir, may I have another…..

By: midasbob

midasbob — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:36:52 +0000

Bergsten

As for DC. Yes it is high, but when I lived there years ago, the justification was always that since the federal gov’t didn’t pay any property taxes on all the property there and the fact that the gov’t is not a revenue generating business that paid income taxes on its income, then the federal largess was to replace that.

By: midasbob

midasbob — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:33:55 +0000

Thor

You wouldn’t be surprised that the CC Times is still in business if you lived here. I live in Walnut Creek and everyone on my block gets it. Both dems and repugs. Mainly for local news, events, advertiesments, etc.

By: trotsky

trotsky — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:18:14 +0000

New Mexico is famously (to residents, anyway) dependent on the federal teat. Military. Los Alamos National Labs. Indian reservations. Lots and lots of federal land.

The real outlier is Nevada.