01-05-2017, 02:09 PM
(01-04-2017, 03:23 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(01-04-2017, 01:48 PM)David Horn Wrote:(01-03-2017, 09:07 PM)Danilynn Wrote: I wish California would leave, just so Eric can have his hippie utopia and the rest of us can see it burn.
January 20 will be the most fabulous birthday I have had in forever watching my President Trump be inaugurated, unlike my birthday in 2009, and 2013. those were awful get drunk sort of birthdays watching that lame duck on his way out, get sworn in.
That Hippie Utopia generates roughly 14% of the US GDP, and even a larger percentage of the tax base. Plan on a big tax hike or decline in spending in your state if they leave.
In fairness, Mississippi produces a good fraction of the cars for normal middle class people that we used to produce here. The old Nummi plant now only makes high priced green toys for 1%ers under the Tesla banner. The old Ford plant became a mall, the ones down in SoCal turned into condos and malls. Another key output made in MS are naval vessels. California long ago lost that industry. Most of the old shipyards were rebuilt into usages that would be difficult to convert back into yards.
Yes, the businesses in MS produce a lot of added value, but the workers receive far less of the bounty than they do in CA. The profits tend to go elsewhere, so the net benefit to MS is less than it should be. If you peel away the so-called Blue states, and leave the Red states in a separate economic block, they would either have to assume higher tax burdens or do with less. Right now, MS is one of many states that receives more in Federal disbursements than it pays in taxes.
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