The Stars are Aligning for Limited Government Folks

[AuH20]

Pure suicide by these state reps! They cannot help themselves!

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/cash-strapped-states-country-cash-strapped-residents-money/story?id=10254754

[Matt Collins]

Why is the idea of "cutting State spending" such an impossibility to these people?!

[Shredmonster]

Why is the idea of "cutting State spending" such an impossibility to these people?!

Simple. Votes. They buy votes with money pure and simple.

Why do you think the highways and streets are not real concrete - so they can have work for union road repair workers.

Goodies for votes.

[AuH20]

http://cgi.rumormillnews.com/pix0/billboard.jpg

[Stary Hickory]

Yeah these reps need to be replaced. They grew government during the bubble years but refuse to shrink it during the bust years.

Throw these morons out of office NOW

[bunklocoempire]

Of course this is the reason the idea of "cutting State spending" is an "impossibility". But we all know this. :)

Also interesting to cross reference the pork per state as well as largest state governments.

From 2004.

http://www.statemaster.com/graph/eco_tot_tax_bur-total-tax-burden-per-capita



Total tax burden (per capita) (most recent) by state



# 1 Hawaii: $3,050.03
# 2 Wyoming: $2,973.87
# 3 Connecticut: $2,941.21
# 4 Minnesota: $2,890.90
# 5 Delaware: $2,862.03
# 6 Vermont: $2,844.96
# 7 Massachusetts: $2,628.26
# 8 New Jersey: $2,415.82
# 9 California: $2,391.65
# 10 Michigan: $2,381.34
# 11 New York: $2,376.77
# 12 Wisconsin: $2,296.20
# 13 Washington: $2,238.66
# 14 Rhode Island: $2,230.43
# 15 Maryland: $2,214.49
# 16 Maine: $2,202.86
# 17 New Mexico: $2,102.88
# 18 Nebraska: $2,082.27
# 19 West Virginia: $2,067.85
# 20 Pennsylvania: $2,045.09
# 21 Kentucky: $2,043.31
# 22 Alaska: $2,034.51
# 23 Nevada: $2,031.24
# 24 Arkansas: $2,029.34
# 25 Illinois: $2,005.24
# 26 North Carolina: $1,971.48
# 27 Ohio: $1,962.93
# 28 Kansas: $1,932.58
# 29 North Dakota: $1,932.22
# 30 Indiana: $1,920.26
# 31 Virginia: $1,902.56
# 32 Idaho: $1,898.06
# 33 Oklahoma: $1,823.70
# 34 Louisiana: $1,781.78
# 35 Mississippi: $1,766.54
# 36 Florida: $1,756.36
# 37 Montana: $1,753.71
# 38 Iowa: $1,741.66
# 39 Utah: $1,733.15
# 40 Oregon: $1,699.55
# 41 Arizona: $1,673.57
# 42 Georgia: $1,633.84
# 43 South Carolina: $1,620.67
# 44 Tennessee: $1,617.03
# 45 Missouri: $1,583.28
# 46 Alabama: $1,550.99
# 47 New Hampshire: $1,543.79
# 48 Colorado: $1,532.26
# 49 South Dakota: $1,378.37
# 50 Texas: $1,368.45
Weighted average: $2,049.20





DEFINITION: Per capita tax burden in US dollars, does not include local and federal tax. The data in this statistic is a survey of state government tax collection.


SOURCE: US Census Bureau, 2004


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