Re: [OM] Redneck

[Mike Lazzari]

> it's not at all certain which way the federal tax money flows.
I looked it up. The South as a whole is a big drain as I suspected. 
Texas on the other hand pays more than it receives. My home state of WA 
receives a little more than it pays, mostly due to the military and 
Hanford. The plains and mtn states get a lot of farm and public land $$

> Republican states, on average, received $1.46 in federal spending for 
> every tax dollar paid; Democratic states, on average, received $1.16.
Mike

http://www.interisland.net/watershed/mike/taxdistribution.jpg
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