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jps

On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:02:11 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:05:11 -0800, jps wrote:

On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:34:35 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 7 Mar 2013 06:04:56 -0800 (PST), True North
wrote:

From a distance it does appear that certain pockets in the US are much more progressive... such as the Pacific NW, parts of New England etc...while some of those southern states have kept the slave mentality..
This is why you need more national policies on everything from gun regulations to labour issues.

You might also notice that those progressive states are the ones going
bankrupt.

Right. You mean the ones who contribute the most to the national
coffers in order that the red states might not be cashless?

I hear that a lot but do they take into account the federal subsidy
from the state tax income deduction? How about where the bulk of the
federal contracts go?

OTOH I live in a "donor state", with a balanced budget and no income
tax to deduct.

We don't have a state income tax but we do get a break on our federal
taxes based on the high sales tax we pay.