[quote=svelte][quote=pri_dk]Over the past 20 years they’ve received $24 BILLION more than they’ve paid out in federal taxes.
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Great find pri!
Idaho got $24B more than it put in over 20 years…
Idaho population: 1.5 million
Annual excess fed income per person: $800
($24,000,000,000 / 1,500,000) / 20
California got $336B less than it put in over 20 years…
California population: 33.8 million
Calif annual excess fed income per person: -$487
($-336,000,000,000 / 33,800,000) / 20
If we received $800 excess fed income this year per person, we would have an additional $43.5 BILLION this year alone (($800 + $487) x 33.8 million)!!!
Considering we had a $25B budget deficit in Nov 2010, I’d say we’d have a bigger surplus than Idaho if we got equivalent federal funding!!![/quote]
We don’t need to borrow their legislature, we need to send them their poor people back.
“California’s share of U.S. welfare recipients is disproportionately high: with about 12 percent of the American population, the Golden State shoulders the burden of 32 percent of the nation’s welfare cases according to the federal Department of Health and Human Services. The result of this is a disproportionate burden on California taxpayers who fund that welfare, who must pay about three times per capita what the residents of other states pay for their own welfare recipients.”
We also get everyone’s hobos, go ask the next hobo if he is a native Californian? They come here because we pay well and it’s a nice place, if you are going to be poor or a hobo on the street, why live in Idaho. I guess the real estate bull mantra “everyone wants to live here” has a negative effect as well.
It pains me to bring this up, because I feel like a dick due to the good life that I lead. It’s just that there are inequities as far as federal return of taxes and the migration of poor people to the land of milk and honey (and it’s not just illegals, it’s domestic migration of the poor). Maybe there is a better system, maybe wherever you are born, then that’s who has to pay whatever your benefits are if you become poor, then maybe other states will get serious about job training in schools. It may also help California schools, who always get a bad rap, but in their defense, they get other state’s and other countries dumb kids midway through their education all the time. I love it when someone claims Arkansas has better test scores than California, my response is, “well, if you send all your poor kids to California in the 7th grade, it’s skewing the stats.” Wherever you went to elementary school should get your stats for the remainder of your education.
O.K. I got sidetracked, and I realize the fed pays for some of the public assistance programs, but not all and not enough. Idaho for example is roughly half the size of San Diego County in population. Of those that move to Idaho from San Diego, and vice-versa, the demographic isn’t equal. We get their poor and they get our retirees with money. It should work like the NBA trade rules, that the trade of players can only occur if their salary is equivalent. If we had 12% of the nations welfare recipients, then there would be bloggers in Idaho asking to borrow California’s legislature and governor. I say that with a straight face and knowing full well that our legislature is filled with buffoons.
