Re:Japan's Hometown Tax
by jessaustin on Friday October 19, 2018 @11:17AM
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New Mexico may be a bit of an outlier since they aren't deep red like some other western states? I would certainly say that New Jersey is bribing e.g. Montana, North Dakota, etc. If the residents of those states had their way, the Department of Interior would be run differently, entitlements would be lower, Israel wouldn't get so much support, etc.
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Re:Japan's Hometown Tax
by kevin_thibedeau on Friday October 19, 2018 @11:54AM
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> entitlements would be lower
That's just the political rhetoric. Red-staters love their entitlements just so long as they go to the "right" people.
Re:Japan's Hometown Tax
by jessaustin on Friday October 19, 2018 @01:09PM
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The red states are not a monolith. You might get a majority of support for some entitlements in Georgia or West Virginia. You won't get that in Wyoming or the Dakotas. Maybe those aren't the entitlements you're talking about, though. This "right people" entitlement: which one is that? Which entitlement goes to white males but not minority females? If you mean some boondoggle for rich people, I already mentioned the military and Drug War spending upthread. Besmirching all entitlements by association with that crap would be dishonest.