re: #249 SanFranciscoZionist

Actually, I know what he’s smoking. There’s a weird meme that these guys get into, where it’s assumed that any red state has a healthy budget, and they just get ripped off by the blue states. That this has absolutely nothing to do with either whose budget balances, or where money goes within the United States does not seem to bother them—they just like the idea that the blue states are all ‘on welfare’.

Yeah, I keep hearing that more and more. “Well, the red states are in great financial state! If it wasn’t for all those public unions, sucking up my tax dollars, they’d be running surpluses! We don’t need a bailout, unlike those blue states!”