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What an Ass*^ole -- only providing disaster funding to states that voted for him.
And as I have said before,,, half the country can’t get enough of his shit and virtually all of the elected repugnants rubber stamp his crime spree. Please give me one reason to have hope for our democracy.
Seems to me there were storms or flooding in "Red" AR. But uncle Donald let go of zero disaster relief money for Gov. Huckabee, who used to be his own Press Sec. ...Donald Trump is a petty, self-absorbed child who's grown old, an Orange Lump. Wasted space. He breathes air that rightfully belongs to people who DO deserve to live. Is he dead yet?
Even though more of the federal money comes from blue states. I perceive red states rely on the richer states, which tend blue, for a high return on their tax revenue investment. I guess that return will just have come from the federal debt clock for a while. I assume the misled purpose is to drive companies and jobs into red states, but I really doubt political ideology explains the difference in business success.
This is a pretty nice chart for the net on federal tax revenue by state. Note the first few net receivers tend to be the DC area where federal expenditures for infrastructure, contractors, DOD stuff, etc. are more concentrated. The less wealthy states follow, as a rule. The last few, the large net losers/givers, tend to be coastal blue states. Of course, rich vs poor is the biggest factor. Nineteen states sent more to the federal government than they received in 2023
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Donald J. Trump is a petty, venal, narcissistic son of a bitch.
It's too late now for this paper tiger to change his stripes.
This is a pretty nice chart for the net on federal tax revenue by state. Note the first few net receivers tend to be the DC area where federal expenditures for infrastructure, contractors, DOD stuff, etc. are more concentrated. The less wealthy states follow, as a rule. The last few, the large net losers/givers, tend to be coastal blue states. Of course, rich vs poor is the biggest factor.
Nineteen states sent more to the federal government than they received in 2023