California- The Democrat Socialist State

[NJBob]

Nonsense. The federal government can do a lot to improve the lives of vets.

[Mountain_Soldier]

California can’t?

[FloridaYankee]

@Mountain_Soldier

Republicans don’t have a voice in California.

There are 49 other states.

[NJBob]

Since when is California responsible for the U.S. military?

[Mountain_Soldier]

Good point. Liberals don’t give a damn about the military or veterans.

[NJBob]

That’s not true.

Many vets are Liberals.

[Tilly_jow]

@Mountain_Soldier

Good point. Liberals don’t give a damn about the military or veterans.

That’s a lie. Got a link?

[fallenturtle]

California isn’t a Democratic Socialist state. They participate in the same market economy the rest of the states do.

[WuWei]

It’s not trending your way. I can’t believe you accused the LA Times of spin.

[Mountain_Soldier]

I’m looking at the state and national congressional delegations. Democrats have a supermajority in both. What voice do republicans have?

[DOLOOP]

@CassandraJoe

@WuWei

Here’s a different take. I’ll assume the source is acceptable.
Capitol Journal: Does Washington shortchange California on taxes? No, not really

The article spins the numbers a different way:

…the conservative Tax Foundation …adjusted the tax dollars to assume a balanced federal budget…the feds spend much more than they receive in taxes. They borrow to cover the rest. That’s why the U.S. government has a $14-trillion deficit…
…In 2015, the New York state comptroller did another study…The conclusion was that California got back 99 cents on the dollar.

But that was still under the national outlay of $1.22 per tax dollar because, remember, the feds always outspend their tax receipts…

In other words, the “average” State gets $1.22 back for every $1 they give in taxes because the Treasury issues bonds (debt) to cover its expenses.

So even though California gets $0.99 back for every $1.00 in federal taxes, that’s less than the $1.22 the average State receives.

…Mississippi made out the best, receiving $2.57 per tax dollar. The worst off was New Jersey at 77 cents…

So despite what the Op-Ed article says, California is still treated as a donor State, subsidizing the conservative Republican fly-over States’ shortfalls.

And proud to do so, BTW.

You’d think all this redistribution of wealth to the states of the Confederacy over years and years would at least have the effect of equalizing average credit scores among the states. Alas, it’s not to be.

There seems to be an average personal responsibility problem. Perhaps the continuing welfare from blue states is exacerbating the problem.

[sikofit]

@Mountain_Soldier

I’m looking at the state and national congressional delegations. Democrats have a supermajority in both. What voice do republicans have?

Veteran affairs are a federal responsibility no matter who is in charge of a particular state.

[AmusedObserver]

@Mountain_Soldier

I’m looking at the state and national congressional delegations. Democrats have a supermajority in both. What voice do republicans have?

The same voice as the Democrats in, for example, Utah. Is this something you feel needs changing?

[AmusedObserver]

@CassandraJoe

You’ve obviously never been to the Central Valley.

Nor, apparently, is Mountain Soldier aware of Trump’s personal leaker in the House, the Honorable Devin Nunes (and the under-indictment but still reelected Duncan Hunter, etc.).

[Cratic3947]

Frustrated Californians on youtube make better campaign ads than Cal’s rep party.

I mean you have cholera in LA homeless camps. The most poverty of any state.

They couldn’t even build a train and wasted billions in failing…

[Tilly_jow]

@Renegade17

I don’t know what socialism is, and at this rate, I’m never going to find out.

Don’t feel bad, repugs/conservatives use the term all the time and they don’t know the meaning/definition either.

[carpe_diem]

but Democrat politicians love printing money, just like Obama did.

Democrat Politicians constantly preach about how Republican Politicians are nothing but the one percent, but anyone that knows anything about politics knows that they’re part of the exact one percent that they preach about. lol.

[Tilly_jow]

@carpe_diem

but Democrat politicians love printing money, just like Obama did.

. lol.

But that’s exactly what your lord and master Trump did when he gave that trillion dollar give-away to rich with his mega tax break. He printed the money.