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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel for the people. But I also hope it’s a wake up call in the land of climate change denialism. They need to rethink housing in the hurricane belt. Make it more reliant and build in different locations— that assume a hundred year storm every few years. Because I tired of FEMA bailing out people the 4th and 5th time they have massive hurricane distraction. The definition of insanity and all that. And expensive insanity. [/quote]

No it is just time to increase taxes to the blue states to pay for the red states climate change problems. [/quote]

Suspect you were being tongue in cheek - but anyway just in case not …

2017 (GOP lies about taxes being funneled from red to blue states paved the way for Trump tax cuts for the wealthy)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders have spent months promoting the myth that red low-tax states are subsidizing blue high-tax states because of the deduction for state and local taxes. An Associated Press Fact Check finds it’s actually the other way around. High-tax, traditionally Democratic states (blue), subsidize low-tax, traditionally Republican states (red) — in a big way.

https://apnews.com/article/north-america-business-local-taxes-ap-top-news-politics-2f83c72de1bd440d92cdbc0d3b6bc08c

[b]Do blue-state taxes really subsidize red-state benefits[/b]?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/07/states-federal-benefits/

The states sending the largest share of tax dollars are mostly blue (apart from Wyoming #7) and Florida (#12)

The states receiving the most money back in federal aid from tax solars are mostly red.

The states who receive the greatest share of federal aid money are evenly split (Virginia and Maryland are up there). However the blue states provide much more tax dollars overall so their return on investment is lower than red states that send fewer tax dollars.

Nothing  predicts a state’s receipts from the federal government better than its share of working-age adults with disabilities. Lower rates of education, higher rates of poverty, fewer patent filings and more employment in the industry that includes dollar stores also tend to be related to receiving more money from the feds. Red states have lower educational levels, income levels and have more people who depend on federal programs to get by.

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Plus, a lot of the transfers to VA and MD are because of federal jobs outside DC. And well paying jobs are a benefit, to be sure. But not one that directly affects most of the population, like SSI and disaster relief.  And as much as Trump tried, not one you can just move anywhere, because they do require subject matter expects in obscure regulatory areas. [/quote]

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