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Business, Economics & Tax Policy 6.0: Nope, it only found woven strands

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burd said:
California partition could be fun. NoCal and SoCal is an easy one--they'd both be in favor. Central gets a little trickier, depending on where you draw lines, though most Bay Area and Santa Cruz Mtn residents, including Big Sur, consider themselves of the same stock (and could care less about the peasants in the valley). But there would be some very fun battles over ag money in the Valley and water in the Sierras.

Big Dakota would be a giant. Combine its sizeable nuclear arsenal and oil reserves along with the superior genetic makeup of the population (brains and looks, mostly), and you have a formidable state that would have every reason to secede.
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If you want to split CA into 3, okay, just please don't call us "Fresno".
 
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mookie1995 said:
not sure how that works. CA and NY have more people for example, so that defense budget that keeps them safe and those nukes would have to proportionally be spread out more to cover them. much bigger allocation that the tiny population of wyoming and idaho.
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It was an oversimplification, but it’s basically true:
https://www.theatlantic.com/busines...tates-are-givers-and-which-are-takers/361668/

Also, your defense argument is kind of absurd. I can’t tell if it’s a bit.
 
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welfare crap is peanuts of the federal budget. so any "analysis" that magazines want to run that discount the major part of federal spending are a waste of mookie's time and sound foolish.
 
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mookie1995 said:
welfare crap is peanuts of the federal budget. so any "analysis" that magazines want to run that discount the major part of federal spending are a waste of mookie's time and sound foolish.
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Go fish. Defense makes up only 1/8th of our budget. Besides, that’s included in base spending, military salaries, etc.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Go fish. Defense makes up only 1/8th of our budget. Besides, that’s included in base spending, military salaries, etc.
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what makes up a greater %?

nukes in nd are included in their "pork"?
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Every blue state gets back less than they pay in.

Regarding the second paragraph. you aren’t reading what I’m saying. You’re just reacting. Our response has been abysmal. They’re citizens of the US and we’re not helping. It’s unconscionable.

We should help them with whatever they need and they should vote to become a state the next time the people who don’t hate brown people are back in power.
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Again, they get paid 1/2 the medicare dollars than the states do. It's a HUGE problem in Puerto Rico

And, yes, I am reacting- as you brought up some tangent that seemingly justifies why we, as a country, treat our fellow US citizens in Puerto Rico like crap. Given the context of the situation, why even bring up your points? How does your interpretation of them giving the US the finger matter? Especially when that's not what happened. It's just how you see Puerto Rico for some reason.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Go fish. Defense makes up only 1/8th of our budget. Besides, that’s included in base spending, military salaries, etc.
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Sounds like a Republican answer.

The discretionary part of the budget has over half going to defense. The non-discretionary part of the budget is about 2/3 of the overall budget and yes defense in the overall is about 1/8. Which is way higher than most countries on earth. Way way higher.. What angers me about people phrasing it the way you do is that we have an extremely regressive tax system in place for paying for the 2/3rd (Social Security, Medicare) and those taxes are targeted. We have no targeted taxes for infrastructure, or defense. Also, they feel free on Capital Hill to spend our Social Security money like it's part of the overall Federal Budget and use it to sell us on how we're over taxed, etc. If they had left the trust fund alone it would still have a ton of money in it. It would go broke eventually anyway but we'd have a lot longer time left with it then we do now.
 
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mookie1995 said:
welfare crap is peanuts of the federal budget. so any "analysis" that magazines want to run that discount the major part of federal spending are a waste of mookie's time and sound foolish.
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Maybe mookie can do his own ****ing work and provide some sort of numbers or evidence that takes defense into effect. Until then he can live with the existing studies that show that blue states give and red states receive.
 
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French Rage said:
Maybe mookie can do his own ****ing work and provide some sort of numbers or evidence that takes defense into effect. Until then he can live with the existing studies that show that blue states give and red states receive.
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no. mookies job is to huff and puff and blow down shoddy research :p
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
It was an oversimplification, but it’s basically true:
https://www.theatlantic.com/busines...tates-are-givers-and-which-are-takers/361668/

Also, your defense argument is kind of absurd. I can’t tell if it’s a bit.
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:eek: What's in South Carolina? Global missile defense system? War Drone Inc. HQ?
Federal spending 2015
Regarding the big one, an annoying thing is that we're providing for the defense of something like 37 countries directly. We can't afford it. Bring the boys home.
 
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