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question everything

(47,481 posts) Tue Nov 28, 2017, 09:39 PM Nov 2017

Many of us in blue high tax states defend our high taxes for promoting quality of life

Warren said the same thing earlier on Matthews show (yes, decided to venture..).

And the RWers claim that they do not want red states to support our quality of life. But no one brings the map of givers and takers.

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Many of us in blue high tax states defend our high taxes for promoting quality of life (Original Post) question everything Nov 2017 OP

Vermont and Maine showing their libertarian underpinnings- they like other funding the government... bettyellen Nov 2017 #1

California -- a giver state that doesn't even have a fair vote in important matters Sophia4 Nov 2017 #2

bettyellen

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1. Vermont and Maine showing their libertarian underpinnings- they like other funding the government...

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Tue Nov 28, 2017, 10:04 PM

Nov 2017

Sophia4

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2. California -- a giver state that doesn't even have a fair vote in important matters

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Tue Nov 28, 2017, 10:34 PM

Nov 2017

because of the electoral college and the two senators per state provisions in the Constitution.

It's morally and politically very unwise to continue this kind of unfairness.

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