Speaker of the House Marjorie Taylor Greene recently twitted this:
The entire population of the earth is about 8 billion. The population of China is about 1.4 billion. With that as background, let's consider her other recent proposal, a "divorce" between the red and blue states. Okay, let's try that. This is from the Brookings Institution.
In case that's difficult to read, 71% of U.S. GDP is generated in counties won by Joe Biden. Here's another fun fact. These are the states that are most dependent on the federal government, i.e. they get back more in federal spending than they pay in federal taxes Notice anything they might have in common? (Okay, New Mexico and Arizona are now contested.) (Source: Wallethub)
And here's the overall picture, from Moneygeek:
So by all means let's have our divorce. Or, failing that, let's give the Republicans what they want. Cut Medciare, Medicaid, Social Security and other federal programs. Balance the budget without raising taxes. Let's see what happens to their voters.
2 comments:
She is a crazy dunce. It is very sad to me that she has brought three children into this world.
The states that receive more that you have pointed out are poorer states.
It makes sense in that as a liberal, you'd laud the redistribution of wealth.
So, what's the problem?
Oh, it's not the federal government tit that's motivating the voters, clearly. It's something else.
And you don't understand what it is.
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