That implies that those states are self sufficient. The red states have some massive deficits in their budget and state level GDP. So they are more dependent on the Fed that their politicians would ever admit.
So it makes more sense to divide the country based on political/cultural blocs instead. Because if anything did happen to the US Constitution to dissolve the Union, these conglomerates would need to be formed in order for the individual statehoods to still have a pragmatic sense of order.
Seriously, the most irritating thing about listening to red state white trash whining about California and New York is that their shithole states would collapse in a week without blue state support. Fuckin' welfare queens....
Lol but for real. It’s amusing until the reality of how many Americans died that winter, in a first world country, when any neighboring state would have done more for them. So yeah, Texas can float itself economically - but it’ll eventually kill everyone doing so.
It’s why I wish we could split into two countries. Let all the ignorant idiots live in states that help no one and control everyone and let the rest of us have a democracy that cares for its people above all else. I know, I know, it’s utterly unrealistic. But a girl can dream.
California pays about $500B in federal taxes and only receives $170B in federal funding, which means we’re essentially donating $330B annually to prop up dozens of failing red state economies. That amounts to nearly 10x the entire state budget deficit per year. So California’s economy actually generates a massive surplus, which is how your state gets financial assistance.
Having a " surplus" is no great brag if your state goes out of its way to avoid funding schools, mental health care, feeding children, etc. Unless you are at least a millionaire, you are just another worker bee buying into the idea that honoring a social contract is somehow enabling laziness. The 10 commandments are a social contract and Jesus said something about " what you've done to the least of these, you've done to me" but there's no love like conservative Christian hate.
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u/BadTaste421 Aug 28 '24
Three raccoons in a trench coat is the best analogy I’ve heard yet.