cpt.fass1 wrote:
I was useing the state taxes as a referance to income made in the state, state taxing more money=people in the state making more money.
here's a link to an article put out by the washington post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar … Jan18.htmlI wish that news paper organizations had to referance there materals.
That article is so much BS.
Example 1: "Is it mere coincidence, for instance, that after voting 91 percent for his opponent, the District suddenly finds itself stuck with a $12 million tab for inauguration security?"
So you only have to pay for the security if your guy wins?
Example 2: "Or that Dick Cheney is still pushing tax cuts and royalty breaks for red-state drillers and miners, even after energy prices for blue-state consumers have rocketed to record highs?"
So energy prices have only rocketed to record highs in the blue-states? Gee, I didn't know that. I'll call my natural gas provider and tell them they must be overcharging me!
Example 3: "Or that the tax plan being cooked up by the Treasury will eliminate the deduction for state and local taxes, which just happen to be highest in blue states?"
Yeah, only the blue states are going to get screwed on this. I live in Georgia, which has a income tax. Which was a blue state. This would screw people in every state except Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming (41 of 50).
I would like to see the reference materials for this:
Among the biggest winners in 2003, for example, were New Mexico, at $1.99 for every tax dollar paid, followed closely by Alaska, Mississippi, North and South Dakota, Alabama and Montana -- the "red-ink states," as Ken Cook of the Environmental Working Group calls them. The biggest loser was New Jersey, at 57 cents per dollar paid, followed by blue states Connecticut, New York, California, Massachusetts and Illinois.
I wonder if they are including pork barrel spending, which has been a big problem in Washington for a long time. For example, one of the Senators from Alaska just got millions of dollars to build a bridge to an island that (I think) has no inhabitants. If this does include pork barrel spending, I would think that whichever party is in power in Congress gets more pork pushed through.