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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait you're saying federal salaries matter in the district?

Who knew?  Duh. [/quote]

What matters is how much DC GOVERNMENT gets from the federal government.

Kentucky pays $7,000 per person in federal taxes.  Its government gets back $8,000, and grants and contracts give it another $8,000.
(Rockefeller: https://rockinst.org/issue-areas/fiscal-analysis/balance-of-payments-portal/)

DC pays $37,000 per person in federal taxes (https://wamu.org/story/17/04/18/tax-day-random-facts-d-c-taxes/). 
Our government gets $7,000.  SEVEN THOUSAND.   ($5B receipts in direct payments/700,000 residents)

[b]Kentucky's government gets $1k per person more from the feds over what they pay.
DC's government gets $30,000 LESS per person from the feds over what we pay.[/b]

It's a joke.

And these BS calculations from Heritage (and even Urban/TPC) that include "federal salaries" are just that, BS.  Our schools don't directly get money from federal salaries (although federal employees end up donating a lot to schools and teachers to buy supplies and to PTOs, which should be eliminated in lieu of the feds paying more of our tax dollars back.)

Our schools are starved of funds because DC residents pay federal tax, we have no representation, so our schools get jack from the taxes we pay.[/quote]

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