As Kos says in his post today:
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The Red states all get more than their contributed tax dollars back from the Federal Government. The Blue states subsidize them. Yet, Red state representatives and senators are insisting on 22% across the board spending cuts or they’ll huff and they’ll puff and they’ll blow the country (and the world economy) down. Bless their flinty little hearts.
My proposal is this, The Federal Government simply stops subsidizing these states so that they begin to pull their own weight economically. They want to include work requirements to grant benefits. We should like to have taxing requirements to have a voice in what the economic policies are. When your states are no longer deadbeat economies due to your warped tax policies, then you may join the grownups at the table deciding fiscal policy.
I suspect that cutting them off would even net that 22% reduction they want. This entire kabuki show is just to “piss off the libs.” Well, it worked, at least in my case. Get it into the press who LOOOVE them some drama and controversy.
“Fiscal Responsibility” begins at home. The properties and businesses in Republican majority states can be sold off to the hedge fund managers who will flop them for a profit and bank it. This is in the best Republican tradition of allowing Wealth to prosper as everyone else scrabbles to make ends meet. The 3 times they automatically raised the debt ceiling while Trump was in office and they/he added 25% to the deficit all by themselves are totally forgotten and obscured by a Democrat being in office now.
Time for their wake-up call. Hopefully this ridiculous nonsense will be over and done with. Who can be the most dramatic and get the media attention?
(Just a very satisfying threat. We would never actually do it.)