The recent election seemed to prove Americans don't taxes. Or is it defecits. Or is it a bad economy. I also learned rich people are not wealthly people, they are "job creators". Apparently, giving them a tax break will create oodles of jobs for the masses. Presumbably these jobs will be better than working at Wal-Mart or Arby's but that remains to be seen.
This post was inspired by a conversation I had recently with a guy from Georgia. I was at the bar watching my beloved college football team get destroyed. I made some muttering about how it'd be nice to goto bowl game before I'm 40, and the gentlemen next to me said his team sucked this year too. Anyhow, as it tends to go, once the debate about whether Herschel Walker or Michael Stipe is the most prominent UGA grad ended, it turned to politics.
This gentlemen was a Republican. His whole argument was the Georgia and "all the red states" have balanced budgets and kickass economies while us liberals in blue states have massive unemployment because we tax the job creators and pay our teachers and prison guards 100s of thousands dollars a year. We chatted a little more, and he said he was voting for Romney and I said, I usually don't vote for people with magic underwear and his response was you voted for Harry Reid, right? Good comeback. Anyhow, I was kind of drunk and forgot about the conversation for awhile.
Recently, I read an article that California was "net payer" in the federal tax system. That is for every $1.00 Californians pay in federal taxes, it gets less than $1.00 back. Here is a list from 2006.
Take a look. Mainly red states on the dole. Maybe if us Californians demanded our fair share back, our budget crisis would go away, and the people of Kentucky could actually do something useful life get educated.
