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Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by thanatos_dem on Thursday April 18, 2019 @09:59PM (#19696464)
As of 2017 Louisiana has a Balance of Payments of $17.7B, meaning they receive that much more in federal funding than they pay in taxes [1]

I say it’s time to move people to somewhere above sea level and let NOLA return to being the river delta it is so desperately trying to be.

[1] https://rockinst.org/issue-areas/fiscal-analysis/balance-of-...

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Re:After a $14B Upgrade, New Orleans’ Levees Are Sinking by mikeash on Thursday April 18, 2019 @10:12PM (#19696522)
What is the figure for New Orleans specifically? Looking at the entire state isn’t terribly informative.
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