Is it me, or does that map show that around half of all Americans are crammed into the northeast? We really did a shitty job of dispersing.
Ron DeSantis: "We do not require assistance. The people of Florida will rebuild on our own"
by BettyHumpter 27 Replies latest jw friends
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BettyHumpter
"As for contributing to society, we will miss Mississippi mor e than NYC"
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Disillusioned JW
People who live in large cities meet a much larger variety of people with a much larger variety of customs and ideas. Coming in contact with many ideas different than our own tends to more likely result in a change of ones ideas, than would otherwise be the case. Furthermore, people in highly populated areas (with a high diversity of people) have to be more more tolerant of people different than them (including in the workplace) in order for each of them to get along well with each other. As result large cities tend to have much higher proportion of liberals than rural areas.
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Anony Mous
Left wing state receive far more aid overall than any other. Your can look up the largest receivers of total federal funds and take into account those numbers are excluding the large amount of accounting tricks such as the fact they can deduct local taxes from federal taxes (which is basically giving them a massive tax break), the fact they also get funding to maintain large amounts of federal lands and other federal handouts.
Biggest receivers of Federal funds per capita when accounting for the tax breaks: New York (>$30k/resident), Connecticut, New Jersey California and DC.
Other accounting tricks: federal loans, it doesn’t show up on the balance sheet, NY is also at the top of never paying back, at just 9% annually (so 90% of their grants and loans are never paid back)
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BettyHumpter
Most Federally Dependent States
Rank State Total Score State Residents’ Dependency State Government’s Dependency 1 Alaska 93.22 1 3 2 Mississippi 84.94 4 4 3 Kentucky 79.54 6 7 4 West Virginia 78.08 2 11 5 Montana 75.90 13 2 6 New Mexico 75.15 3 15 7 Arizona 69.92 12 6 8 Louisiana 69.50 21 1 9 Indiana 68.23 9 12 10 Alabama 66.92 10 10 -
BettyHumpter
https://www.moneygeek.com/living/states-most-reliant-federal-government/
Key Findings:
- Eight of the 10 states most dependent on the federal government were Republican-voting, with the average red state receiving $1.35 per dollar spent.
- Nine states sent more to the federal government than they received — seven of these were Democrat-voting and had higher per capita GDPs than many of the red states that received the most.
- New Mexico had the highest return on federal spending of any state ($4.33), and Delaware had the lowest ($0.63).
- The eight states receiving the highest child tax credit per capita were all Republican-voting.
Red States Lead With Federal Dependence
Democratic-voting blue states tend to be wealthier and pay more to the federal government than they get. In contrast, Republican-voting red states tend to have less wealth and receive more federal government funds than they pay. In the MoneyGeek rankings, 8 of the 10 most dependent states are considered red states.
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BettyHumpter
"Is it me, or does that map show that around half of all Americans are crammed into the northeast? We really did a shitty job of dispersing."
I watched an interesting short documentary on YouTube recently about how 80% or about 250 million Americans live East of the 100th meridian.
The other 20% of 'Westerner's" live on a fairly narrow band along the Pacific Ocean, with the exception of Las Vegas and Phoenix, AZ.
I knew the western US was empty but didn't grasp just how empty. Anyways, the documentary went into how the Sierra Nevada's and Rocky Mountains act as a wall to incoming weather systems off the Pacific and therefore why those areas are so sparsely populated and why the few population centers that do exist rely on spring snow melt from said mountain ranges for their water supply.
Still not nearly as empty as Australia, where a population of only 25 million lives on a land area almost as big as the lower 48 -
JeffT
No need to split the country in two. Just run it the way it's supposed to run. The federal government deals with things that effect the country as a whole. These are enumerated in Article one, section 8 of the Constitution:
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—And
To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.Everything else is left to state and local governments. In this scenario New York and Mississippi can deal with their problems as they see fit. Unfortunately far too many people look past local government and demand action from Washington, DC, and one size does not fit all.
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BettyHumpter
"Obviously Republicans opposed this straight up political favoritism and government handouts disguised as aid".
"Straight up" is not the word you are looking for. The correct word is "imaginary".
Here is an interesting article detailing what actually happened in 2012.
Also, Gov. Christie claimed 37 Billion in New Jersey, not 65.
https://www.wnyc.org/story/why-new-jersey-got-billions-less-sandy-aid-new-york/