States in the worst financial condition....

NJ in bad financial shape? I wonder who is going to bail all these states out?

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The Mercatus Center at George Mason University released the study earlier this week. The center counts among its key backers the Koch family, and conservative financier Charles Koch sits on the center’s board.

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I would take this info with a grain of salt.

I don't know how many times ya'll have to hear this for it to sink in but here we go again....

according to the link the top 5 states in the best financial health are all red states and all, every last one of them, a net taker of federal tax dollars instead of a net contributor...the bottom 5, according the link, with the exception of Illinois, is just the opposite. If four of the bottom 5 were not supplementing the annual budgets of the top 5 it is pretty easy to understand that their positions would most likely flip flop....

Ya'll have to start being honest with yourselves....the Blue States finance the rest of the nation. Only Georgia and Texas is the exception to the rule that all Red States are net consumers of federal taxes while the only net contributors are Blue States. California, Massachussets and New York basically fund the federal government while the rest of the nation, particulalry the south, feed at the trough. I know it isn't fun to hear but the truth will set you free.

And don't ask for the link....if you have been on any of these types of boards for any length of time you have seen this informantion numerous times. If you doubt the veracity of this information do the research yourself....but like the lazy fricks in the red states who take and don't contribute you will no doubt rest and wait until it is handed to you....

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I don't know how many times ya'll have to hear this for it to sink in but here we go again....

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hahahaha, so what you are saying is the people running the red states are smarter than the people running the blue states?

That's the only conclusion that can be drawn. The people running the blue states sure as Hell are "subsidizing" the red states out of the goodness of their hearts.

Hahahahahaha, I hear this shite a lot. I would suggest if the people in blue states don't like it they quit whining about it and do something about it.

Here's a couple of ideas:
1) Drastically lower federal taxes and curtail the fed govt's power and let the states fend for themselves.

or

2) Split the country in two and let us fend for ourselves that way.

That's a couple of ways the poor put upon blue states can really get us.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Smart enough to milk the system for generations.

You would think that people would look at the error aka California and figure out that massive regulations and high tax rates are a recipe for disaster, but then they go and elect a Socialist like Obama.

Not that Boehner and McConnell are really much better.

Hell break it down to cities that are in deep financial trouble and again it's one ran by stupid Democrats. And Greman, that argument don't jive in these cases.

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Ya'll have to start being honest with yourselves....the Blue States finance the rest of the nation.

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they finance our welfare, medicaid, etc in the south. i want those programs eliminated. perhaps the blue states should get behind my ideas so they stop "financing" my state

yeah it's like people who have lived sheltered, upper/upper-middle class lilly white lives in private schools from ages 3-22 who then spout off pontifications and criticisms of how society/governments handle the poor