Cybrpnk's Rantings

I don't know about the rest of you out there, but I am mad. No, not mad, furious. It's bad enough that so many people in America apparently want George W. Bush to remain president. But their reasoning makes it appalling, atrocious, scary, horrible. In particular I speak of the people who voted for him based solely on the belief that they were fulfilling their religious duty. They really piss me off. The message these people seem to be sending is that they are indifferent to the position of this country in the rest of the world, they don't care about their own material well-being, all they care about is having a president who shares their religious beliefs and will act to codify them in US law. And it isn't just legislation. These people are likely to have the opportunity to remake the US Supreme Court into a body that may well sanction this sanctification of America. Well, I have a message to all of you people out there in those Red States, you don't care about anything but your spiritual well-being in the next world, than stop taking money from those of us who you despise. Let's remake federal expenditures into some sort of nice tax parity: if your state pays N dollars into the federal budget, you get at most N dollars back. Some of that money has to pay down the debt, and I bet that a lot of us in those big blue states are sick of carrying your deadweight. You don't like the way we live, see how you do without us.

With a minimal amount of research I found a nice website with information about how much different states get per dollar they pay in federal taxes. You know whose paying to keep things working in the vast conservative middle of this country? California, New Jersey, New York, Illinois. If you are deluded into thinking you are independent, rugged conservatives, it's time you learned what a bunch of leeches you are. One of the worse offenders is Alaska, which gets $1.89 in federal money for every dollar they send to Washington. This is particularly egregious when you consider the cash handouts every citizen in that state gets from oil and gas leases. Maybe if we stopped sending them so much money they would need that lease money to pay for their basic services. But isn't that what a true conservative would want anyway?

Oklahoma gets $1.48 per dollar. Louisiana $1.47. Kentucky $1.52. Idaho $1.32. Arizona $1.23. North Dakota $1.75. South Dakota $1.49. Utah $1.19. Kansas $1.13. A nice dependent group of red states.

And where does this money come from? Well, California only gets back $.87. New York get $0.80. And New Jersey really gets screwed, they only get $0.57. Isn't that really odd? The states with all of the rich jews are carrying all of those holier-than-thou christians. Let's start talking about tax parity, not in a rich vs. poor sense, but in a state-by-state sense. It would be interesting to see how the red states feel about spreading their religion when they actually have to pay their own way at home. I'd allow one exception: let's use federal tax money to send a copy of the Constitution of the United States to every citizen in those red states. If they actually read it and can pass a test on it, it won't count against their allocation. Bah!