08-16-2023, 02:28 PM
(08-16-2023, 02:01 PM)GMDino Wrote: I didn't post a single argument about taxes...just the "...blue voters paradise full of illegal immigrants, high taxes, people who don't work and do nothing to ute to society parasiting the welfare state" you claimed in your post.
If I'm not mistaken the balance-of-payment rations depend entirely on federal tax and spending policiy. The amount of federal revenue collected from state taxpayers depends mostly on state income, and the federal income tax levies higher rates on filers with higher incomes. Progessives designed the federal income tax to burden high-income earners on purpose and support policies to make the federal income tax increasingly weighted toward the wealthy. The states with the highest personal income per capita are Connecticut, Massachussets, New York and New Jersey, and the states with the lowest personal incomes are Mississippi, Alabama and West Virginia and Kentucky. These are the exact same states with the lowest and highest balance of payment ratio, respectively. It's unfair to decry the tax code for high-income states more than low income states while you're intentionally designing tax policies with that effect.
