unaffiliatedpangolin:fullerauto:anarchyinblack:anarchyinblack:If there is a red dot next to your sta
unaffiliatedpangolin:fullerauto:anarchyinblack:anarchyinblack:If there is a red dot next to your state, your state lives at the expense of federal tax dollars paid by states in green.Most of the states in green are in the left column. They are more urbanized. California is borderline, so I colored it yellow.The green states in the rightmost column have much smaller economies. The magnitude of the federal theft against them to be redistributed to others is therefore comparatively small. New Yorkers are scammed from twice as much per capita as North Dakota, the rural state placed after them.Rural states leech off of “coastal urban elite” states. Not the other way around.Do not let the flyover people gaslight you on this.And to circle this back. The states with green dots deserve more representation in the federal government per capita than the states with red dots, because they contribute more than their profligate flyover cousins.Our current constitution does the opposite, empowering flyover leeches with excess voting power per capita compared to New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Washington.California as well has its per capita voting power severely more constrained than it deserves, considering how close it is to being in the black:Green states are overrepresented (compared to the national average electors/capita). Yellow states are slightly overrepresented (between 400k-436k people per elector) orange states are slightly underrepresented (between 436k-472k people per elector) red states are underrepresented.New York, New Jersey, and Illinois, despite vastly overpaying for the federal government, is severely underrepresented in it. California, likewise, almost breaks even, yet is severely underrepresented when by rights it ought to be only slightly underrepresented. Massachussets is also slightly underrepresented when it ought to be overrepresented. North Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, and Washington are overrepresented, which is good, but Nebraska ought to be only slightly overrepresented.Damn Maine is the most rural? Maybe we are doing something right.This post gets so close to realizing that taxation is theft but then misses the mark and goes on about representation in government. No taxes should and government should be reduced to almost nothing, and obviously money shouldn’t go to other states. But this whole “representation as a proportion of taxes paid” is one of the most ill thought out notions ever. I think flyoverstate folk should only count as 3/5ths of a person each. Anyways, there is literal slavery growing faster and faster day by day while free populations stagnate ever closer to shrinking. And both parties are silent about it, even Trump, and all receive most of their funds from people who operate the mass forced unpaid labor schemes. Yes Trump, yes Biden & Obama & Clintons, yes Bushs, etc. -- source link