13 March 2007

Republican Defintion of Free Market

For Republicans, "free" means tax money that comes from rich liberals with college degrees. Check it out:
  • 25 out of 31 total red states get more Federal tax $ than they contribute
  • 13 out of 18 blue states give more Federal tax $ than they receive
  • The Top 12 Federal tax contributing states are blue
  • The Top 8 Recipients of Federal tax money are Red
  • Blue states, not including MD and VA (where much of the Federal Gov't. is located), paid $1.4 trillion more than they got back
  • Red states received $800 billion more than they paid
  • Blue States lost $8916 per capita
  • Red States gained $8,499 per capita
  • Red states take in $17,415 more per capita than blue in Federal tax dollars


See Taxes paid by state, per capita.

Complete data on which states are giving and which states are taken to produce my above summary came from the Tax Foundation. Thanks.

2 comments:

Violet Chrome said...

Hmm. Red and blue... what do the "white" states get?

Chief RZ said...

Nice cherry picking. Someone at SA referenced your blog. You also have a few missing links.

How about this for a real scientific comparison:

http://magyartruth.blogspot.com/2006/05/republican-states-are-safer.html

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