Embers84 said:
All complete horsesht, full of left Complex cherrypicks and distortions, childishly easy to debunk:
1. On the "giving" side,
a) Tax situs fallacy - perhaps the most "glaring" factor in leftist liestats on state "giving" is attributing revenue that results from interstate commerce operations -only- at the tax situs. Taxes are paid on executive and other salaries, among other things, in big blue city corporate HQs, national firms of all types from law to advertising to architecture, but that money really came from interstate operations in many states. This distortion, failing to attribute revenue at the OPERATIONAL situs as opposed to the TAX situs, is enough to debunk the entire "Blue state giver, Red state taker" BS on its own. But there's more...
b) Sunbelt retirement fallacy - For decades, tens of millions of Americans work and pay high income taxes in big blue cities, then retire into red sunbelt states, where they become net "takers," with the double whammy of paying less, if any, income tax in retirement. This creates the absurdity that someone is a "giver" one day, and a "taker" the very next when they retire. This factor alone is enough to debunk the entire "giver taker" BS on its own... but there's even more...
c) Delaware corporate locus as tax situs fallacy - Millions of companies are organized and HQed in Delaware for various corporate law reasons, yet they don't actually do much business there. They are taxed in DE making DE appear to be the biggest "giver" state in the country inaccurately, despite this is a distortion. Any stats that don't adjust this huge factor out are bogus.
There's more on the "giver" side, but that's enough for now.
2. On the "taker" side, the only way the left-Complex liestats can work is if they include all sorts of NATIONAL benefits and benefits with severe tradeoffs as solely STATE benefits. They add in military bases, land and park management, and resource subsidies designed to stabilize NATIONAL markets as the equivalent of "welfare taking" by red states when they are most certainly not.
For example, small population western states are considered huge "takers" per capita due to money spent on federal land management of FEDERAL land and NATIONAL parks in those states. But we all know this most certainly isn't welfare, and the question becomes WHAT ARE THEY GETTING?
Anyone who has ever lived near a military base knows there are huge tradeoffs there, having a big TARGET painted on your community for one glaring thing, rowdy soldiers and unsavory behavior for another, yet leftist liars count military bases as the equivalent of WELFARE for a state?! Come again? Moreover, military bases are INDISPUTABLY sources of NATIONAL, not just state benefit.
Farm and energy subsidies are in place to STABILIZE food and commodity prices for EVERYONE, not just the people in the state who receive the subsidies. These are closer to being welfare, but still a distortion.
Here's the takeaway, all the distortion, cherrypicks and lies detailed above are designed to conceal one irrefutable fact. When it comes to actual WELFARE and transfer payments, BIG BLUE CITIES are far and away the biggest takers:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/31910310
This is a relatively straightforward statistic, and CNBC lists the numbers in each state. Almost all of the welfare taker states are BLUE.
So don't let liars from the Complex left peddle this lie narrative, don't be fooled. State to state comparisons are useful only on big maps in ELECTIONS, never in the kind of dishonest way the left tries to sell them over and over, red state takers, red states less educated, and any other state-hate.
States are huge diverse economies, boom towns like Huntsville Ala just down the road from the sticks towns, and this applies to EVERY SINGLE STATE. Only a moron or a lying leftist will try to generalize whole states in this way, it's somewhat more accurate to generalize CITIES, which, even in red states, tend to be BLUE.
Don't be fooled, don't fall for the obvious lies.
This utter and complete DEBUNKING of the "blue state giver, red state taker" Horsesht has been brought to you as a PSA, LOL.