re: #95 Blind Frog Belly White

The NY example is instructive.

The NYC metro area by itself is one of the world’s largest economies - forget nation’s largest economy. NYC’s economy by itself generates just a bit less than all of Canada.

NYC sends far more to Albany than it ever gets back, but when upstate complains about not getting sufficient funding, NYC always gets the shaft because they don’t get anything approaching parity in return.

The federal budget is like that writ large. CA and NY and NJ are net losers of federal payments and receipts. Large swaths of GOP dominated states are treading water (and able to maintain lower tax rates for their state residents) because they’ve got the federal payments from NY and CA to more than make up the difference.