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ProudMNDemocrat

(20,897 posts)
Mon Nov 3, 2025, 09:22 AM Nov 2025

Rather than "Blue" states withholding Federal taxes, sound the alarm on "Red" state Governors

who refuse to raise tax revenues in their own states that have their hands out for Federal dollars. Expose their own corruption as to why their residents have poor education, infrastructure, Health care access, state services as compared to states with higher taxes, etc.

States like California, Minnesota, New York, Colorado, New Jersey, etc., show where the tax dollars go and have far healthier economies. They are higher tax states, but the quality of life is far better than in states like Kentucky, West Virginia, the Carolinas, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, etc.

I have had the opportunity to travel all over this country and have seen first hand how states compare. I will be adding the Carolinas to that list this coming weekend as I am set to visit friends in SE Georgia and travel up to the North Carolina Renaissance Festival for a weekend of revelry. Just in my little corner of Minnesota, I can see that the quality of life here is far better than any "red" state by leaps and bounds.

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