The Real Welfare States

[Playinghardball]

[Lasher]

1. The Tax Foundation is a conservative think tank.

They publish divisive bullshit like this as part of their overall effort to convince us our taxes are too high and our domestic social programs are too extravagant.

"The source of this data is taxfoundation.org/research/show/266.html"

No joy, however: The requested page "/article/research/show/266.html" could not be found.

[bluestate10]

3. The grossly under-calculated the contributions of blue states like CA, NY and MA.

Those states donate a lot more than given credit for.

[Lasher]

4. What kind of contributions?

What kind of federal spending? Where is the source data? If it is not apparent, as in this case, then deception is afoot.

Do these mysterious calculations include Social Security benefits? I remember from a prior investigation that they do. And what is the remedy for that? Punish retirees for moving to New Mexico? Cut off seinors in states where their children had to move somewhere else to find a job?

[leftyohiolib]

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