With Norquist in mind: save $256,381,931,608 annually, in Federal expenses in excess of taxes by

[Bill USA]

excising five states from the U.S.: Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee. These states all receive far more in Federal expenditures than they contribute to taxes. I say cut the states that are costing us so many tax dollars!


Federal revenues/expenditures by State

States populations 2000 Census

using 2005 data on revenues and expenditures by state...

[font color="white"]...........................[/font] Total of Fed Revenues
[font color="white"]...........................[/font] less Expenditures
Alabama............... ($77,315,231,974)
Mississippi............. ($39,105,495,643)
Georgia................. ($31,879,068,749)
South Carolina....... ($37,444,851,109)
Tennessee............. ($70,637,284,133)
total[font color="white"]....................[/font] ($256,381,931,608)... $256 BILLION PER YEAR!


This has the additional benefit that the many people in these states who say they don't want the Federal government messin' in their affairs.... would get what they want. They're OUT of The COUNTRY! Hurrah for states rights!

Grover Norquist should love this idea. We'd be cutting programs that are net losers to the nation! We would be stopping expenditures that exceed the revenues from these welfare queen states.

[JoePhilly]

1. You could build a contiguous fence around all of it to keep those foreigners out of Real America.

[Bill USA]

2. I think we could count on them putting up a fence to safeguard themselves from 'secular Democrats'

[JoePhilly]

3. They won't have the money.

[Motown_Johnny]

4. Or just pass a law which says each state must contribute at least as much

to the Federal Government as it receives (with an exclusion for disaster relief).




Actually I have suggested this on this board before and gotten ripped up because everyone thinks it will come out of services for the poor. It is a reasonable point but I think the law could be worded to target pork barrel spending (which is what I was posting about) and secure services for residents.

[Recoverin_Republican]

5. $256 Billion ...a year? Wow. I'd say this is an idea whose time has come!!

[randome]

6. Hey, my brother lives in Georgia.

Don't roof-rack him, bro!

[Egalitariat]

7. I'm pretty sure they tried to do that on their own. We didn't let them.

[Bill USA]

8. it's never too late to correct an error (That's what I say.) If only they would 'Put up' or shut up.

[slackmaster]

9. Wow, I think you may really be on to something there, Bill USA

extreme of course.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_African-American_population

Grover Norquist should love this idea.

Perhaps he would.

[Bill USA]

10. LOL. (you're funnier than Gracie Allen)