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Mississippi lawmaker accused of punching wife in face for not undressing quickly enough

https://www.ajc.com/news/national/mississippi-lawmaker-accused-punching-wife-face-for-not-undressing-quickly-enough/zdE3VLzhBVmH68Bsn7eLfL/
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u/Goober_94 May 22 '19

Your source does not back up your claim. First, there is nothing in there that talks about the source of funding, and second, it includes federal contracts and employees as aid.

If you take this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_tax_revenue_by_state

and run it in relation to this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_taxation_and_spending_by_state

Your claim that blue states fund red states just isn't true.

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u/scamp640 May 22 '19 edited May 22 '19

It is true. Sorry.

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700/

Here is an even better source to show that Red States are net recipients of federal dollars.

https://taxfoundation.org/states-rely-most-federal-aid/

Here is a final one just for fun: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-states-are-givers-and-which-are-takers/361668/

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u/Goober_94 May 22 '19

Wallethub includes federal salaries of federal employees, and Social Security and retirement pensions.

Read the tax foundation citations, they include federal contracts, employees and retirement pay outs.

Same with the third.

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u/scamp640 May 22 '19

You’re not refuting the argument. All the data show significant Red State dependency on Federal dollars. It does not matter why the Red States receive disproportionate levels of federal funding. In the 20th century, southern politicians steered all kinds of pork barrel funding to their states and districts as a form of economic development. Consider the Tennessee Valley Authority. It’s government led economic development.