It’s cheap to live where you do because the Northeast is subsidizing your life style.

Let’s compare some maps and charts and see what interesting tidbits we can pull out of them

Northeast

Low ratios of spending to tax and nice vs. dark blue because they have high, evil tax levels.

Outliers

Florida – 1.02 in 2004 and down to .97 by 2005 – but still 20 to 30 cents higher than the Northeast – Why? So they can fix their roads, because they have such extremes in temperatures hurting their infrastructure, low tourism, falling population…

Texas: Having Non-Texan pay taxes on petrochemicals and other exports is a great way to offset costs of running your state – to bad that sounds like a tariff by one state to others and it’s very unconstitutional.

Nevada – They have low taxes, but get even less back from the federal government than New York! Gambling anyone?

Irritating

Alaska – Low taxes, get lots of money back from the Fed – $1.87 – and they pay each of their life long residents about $1000 bucks from their ﻿Alaskan Permanent Fund – but I will concede that it is probably really expensive to live there.

Hawaii – This state probably faces some of the same realities of Alaska – very, very expensive to live there – but again, why should I have to subsidize people to live anywhere? If you can’t afford to live in a state because it is located in a desert, in a blizzard, or in the middle of the ocean then perhaps you should rethink your choice.

Obvious

Maryland – It’s a beltway state and home to most credit card companies which incredible lobbying power.

West Virginia – home for years to the “King of Pork” Robert Byrd

So basically, I am tired of hearing how terrible NY and even the northeast is for business because we have such high taxes.

84% of Red states get more than they give.

78% of Blue states give more than they get .

I want our full dollar back from Washington! Let’s cease sending welfare to a bunch of red states that parade around, telling everyone how cheap it is to live there! Red states filled with people who espouse hand ups and not hand outs. Let’s take back our welfare handout and then we’ll see if a “hand up” doesn’t actually look like a tax raise.