Question for the House

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Samrob (819 posts)


Question for the House

Since the GOP was all for Trump pouncing on NATO allies for not contributing enough to help themselves, why don't blue state governors pounce on red state governors for not taxing their state citizens for not contributing enough to their own tax base to help themselves? Why do blue states have to continue to contribute heavily to the Federal coffer but the red states get proportionately more Federal aid than blue states?

Is it time for those attractive retirement states to tax incomes at state levels just like the blue states do?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216614552

What a stupid question. 

[ADsOutburst]

I believe Trump "pounced" on NATO allies because they weren't paying the amount that they agreed to pay. Or am I wrong about that?

[Karin]

for not taxing their state citizens for not contributing enough to their own tax base to help themselves?

I read that 5 times and gave up.  And what do the red and blue governors have to do with each other at all?  Dumbest thing I've read today so far.  JFC.  DUmmie needs to be throat-punched. 

[Texacon]

The blue states are not the contributors the DUmmies like to claim they are.  The whole SALT issue brought that to the surface rather quickly.  Now the blue states citizens can hold their governors accountable for budgets they were setting based on getting money back from those of us who couldn't claim those taxes as deductions.

KC

[fatboy]

Best solution to smooth out the budget is a big tax on legal weed.

[SVPete]

Samrob (819 posts)

Question for the House

Since the GOP was all for Trump pouncing on NATO allies for not contributing enough to help themselves, why don't blue state governors pounce on red state governors for not taxing their state citizens for not contributing enough to their own tax base to help themselves? Why do blue states have to continue to contribute heavily to the Federal coffer but the red states get proportionately more Federal aid than blue states?

  That's an apples-parsnips comparison.

  For European NATO countries, maintaining an adequate defense is both a treaty and a constitutional requirement. States' taxation levels are determined by their budgets, which are passed by their legislatures, not the US Constitution or Congress.

  Given the number and magnitude of bases and government spending in Hawaii, California (can you say "Silicon Valley"?), Washington, New York, and Massachusetts (among other states), I suspect the claim that "red states get proportionately more Federal aid than blue states" is bogus.

OTOH, states on the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska are close to hostile nations. When the Feds buy tech products from Texas and Utah (e.g. from Texas Instruments, one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world, or Dell Computers, or Texas-based General Dynamics, or from L3 Communications' division in Utah), the whole country benefits. Has LPC Noob Samrob heard of Research Triangle Park, Raleigh, and Durham, and where they are located? I'd bet the Feds spend a few gigabucks there for products and technologies that benefit the whole country.