Alabama gets $2.17 for every $1 paid in federal taxes, report states

[CEE DOG]

Yet this is a state that hates blue states and always vote Republican. This is why they voted for dumb coach Tommy Tuberville over Doug Jones

Alabama gets $2.17 for every $1 paid in federal taxes, report states

The state gets the fourth highest return among the states for what it pays into Washington, according to the report

www.al.com

 

[Earle]

States likes Alabama, indeed like all southern states and many western and midwestern states, are considered "Donee" or "Taker" states because they receive more in federal funding than they pay out. States such as New York, California, and Illinois are considered "Donor" or "Giver" states because they pay out way more than they take in. Other DONOR states would be Massachusetts, Connecticut, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and other wealthier states of the upper Northeast. Maryland, Virginia, and Kentucky receive the most in federal dollars. And just to think that a Mississippi legislator recently suggested that Mississippi should consider succeeding from the Union.

 

[Mrwiregrass]

Money from the federal government is redistributed back to states in the form of grants, aid programs for the needy and payments to major government contracting firms such as defense companies.

So, that federal government money is paying a lot of people salaries in Huntsville.

 

[TSU/BAMA]

States likes Alabama, indeed like all southern states and many western and midwestern states, are considered "Donee" or "Taker" states because they receive more in federal funding than they pay out.

Isn't that a form of socialism???

 

[Earle]

Isn't that a form of socialism???

Absolutely! Elements of socialism has its figerprints all over this democracy of ours. It was intended to be that way.

 

[Attack Dog]

That's why that stuff the Republicans and all of these antigovernment people talk is bunch of crap. America has a mixed economy. It would have never survived with pure capitalism.