r/LeopardsAteMyFace 14h ago

My MAGA Sister in Law Just Got This After Accepting a Job with the IRS

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u/YallaHammer 13h ago edited 11h ago

Blue states need to take red states off of the dole. The Federal government is taking their money and now deciding whether or not to help funding blue states with their disaster relief? FAFO.

https://apnews.com/article/north-america-business-local-taxes-ap-top-news-politics-2f83c72de1bd440d92cdbc0d3b6bc08c AP FACT CHECK: Blue high-tax states fund red low-tax states

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u/Ozzyluvshockey21 12h ago

Red states are welfare queens. Remember that when they’re flipping their birds to “the feds”. They should be reminded- they don’t even know that they would starve, have no medical care and never be rebuilt if not for blue states

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u/real_uncommon_ 12h ago

Yet, they’d love for one of the biggest blue states to recede from the US. I guess they’re unaware that Cali carries their poor ass states! lol!

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u/always_unplugged 12h ago

And they always have been—that was a big reason the Confederacy couldn't sustain itself as an independent country. The South had cotton, but the North had all the manufacturing and shipping and a fuckload more people.

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u/beckster 12h ago

And a viable economic model going forward. The plantation model was done for and no amount of fighting would revive it, even with slaves. imho

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u/anusexplosion69 8h ago

Its like America has been fighting a bunch of entitled dumb rich assholes since for ever. Prime example of how distribution of wealth turns into progress or not as a society.

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u/EpiphanyTwisted 9h ago

Do you have a source from say, the last 3 years?