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>Most of federal spending is medicare, medicaid and social security... Well, there's also Defense, and then service payments on the debt. Those are the big 3 w
by bilbo0s 8y ago
>Most of federal spending is medicare, medicaid and social security...
Well, there's also Defense, and then service payments on the debt. Those are the big 3 without question. So "the wrong people" must be in there somewhere?
But the real reason we give more to the feds is because if we didn't it would be AWESOME for places like New York, Minnesota, Texas, Delaware, California etc, and TERRIBLE for places like Wisconsin, Alabama, South Carolina, and Florida.
- lg 8y agoand yet the first group of states votes in politicians that raise taxes and the second group votes in politicians that cut taxes?
- zeckalpha 8y agoThose states also pay more to the federal government than they get back.
- eigenstuff 8y agoThat second group of states is half states in the black belt. Those state governments are bought and paid for and their people largely disenfranchised, same for much of Appalachia. (Like, c'mon, Mississippi is around 40% African American, you really think them electing Donald Trump reflects the true will of the people? Of course not!) They're run by shitty rich people with shitty agendas who are just out to further enrich themselves and have a vested interest in maintaining the power structures that be. That's why the South "votes against its own interests." It's literally a narrative invented by the coal industry so it could justify and get away with brutalizing West Virginia and leaving it far worse off than it was before. Coal owns WV all the way down to the school boards and sherrifs.