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Originally Posted by sandman!
for all the idiots that are complaining about their states paying more then they are getting back who do you think pays for the army all the billions we give away in foreign aid and all the other crap ?
Do you really thing every state can get back what they put in ?
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Of course the taxes help pay things for the federal govt, that's a given. If you actually read what I wrote instead of being so fast to call the idiot, maybe you would get the point I was making.
Let's take Texas and Cali for example here. Both states collect and pay in far more taxes than say Alaska. Both states Cali & Tx have either a state sales tax or state income tax on their residents.
Meanwhile, a state like Alaska has no state sales tax, and charges no state income tax, for the most part taxes are only collected from big business, letting their residents get a free ride. Yet this state still gets back of two times what it pays to the Federal govt.
Meaning the people in Texas, Cali, Florida and all the other states that don't get back their 100% are flipping the bill. These very states are all having budget problems and cutting spending for things like education and various other things that serve the very people whom paid their hard earned tax dollars yet they don't see it returned because it goes to states like Alaska that can't pay their own way.
While of course I understand there will always be a situation like this, but there is no excuse that the residents of states like Texas, Florida Cali ect..ect.. should be paying more taxes per person while a state like Alaska lets their residents get off scott free and still gets double the tax dollars back.
This is what those Right wingers all love to screem and shout about when it comes to welfare, yet when it's their own state that is getting welfare then they never say a word.