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This week, Michelangelo played a clip of Tommy Tuberville stating that California, my state, had been 'bailed out many times'. I went to the Tub's website and left this message on it:

Recently Tuberville has stated that California has been 'bailed out many times'. Could you maybe provide an example of when California was bailed out?

I ask because according to the Tax Foundation, the Pew Trust and the Rockefeller Institute, Alabama has no history whatsoever of paying more Federal Taxes than you receive in Federal Spending. In fact, your 40 year average is $1.69 in federal spending for every dollar paid. Not quite Mississippi or West Virginia, but right near the top of the most heavily subsidized states in the U.S. Why is that? And in recent years, things seem to have gotten even worse. 2015, $1.94; 2016, $2.00; 2017, $2.00; 2018, $2.15; 2019, $2.14; 2020, $2.30; 2021, $2.18 & 2022, the most recent data, $1.96. Things seem to have gotten worse in Alabama. What happened?

Meanwhile, my state, California, in 2015, got $0.96 back. 2016, it was $0.98; 2017, $0.98; 2018, $0.94; 2019, $0.97; 2020, $1.11; 2021, $0.93 & 2022, $0.83. None of these numbers look like California has been bailed out any time in the recent past. In 2019, we paid $472 billion in Federal Taxes. In 2021, we paid $587.6 billion. In 2022, California paid $696 billion. An increase of 68%, during a pandemic.

In 2019, we got back $457.8 billion in Federal Spending. What happened to the $14.2 billion we didn't get back?

In 2021, we got back $546.5 billion in Federal Spending. What happened to our $41.1 billion we didn't get back?

In 2022, we got back $578.3 billion in Federal Spending. What happened to the $118.5 billion we didn't get back?

So, when has California been bailed out? Look at the numbers for Alabama. And you think we don't have Socialism in the United States? May be why my mother left Alabama and never went back.

I'm going to JD's site in a bit and leave a similar message, as his state has a rather pathetic record as a Socialist Welfare State.

Feel free to copy this and tailor it to whatever state you want to target. Expand on it. Plenty to expand on. I'll help if you want. All the Red States, as I believe I've documented here, are Chronic Failed Socialist Welfare States. Lets start letting them have it on their webpages. It's a place to start. And refrain from calling them Senator or Representative. Just call them whatever you wish to call them. I think you all know who they are. It's a place to start. The data can't be argued with, it's right there in black and white.

It was kind of funny hearing Kimberley Guilfoyle, Gavin Newsom's ex wife, say the soldiers who landed on D-Day were 'fighting Communism'! I guess all the make up and plastic surgery has fried here brain. From the numbers for all the Red States, you could say we have a form of Communism right here in the U.S. I prefer to call it Socialism. We need another D-Day right here to save us from the Failed Ass Red States.

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Sakina's avatar

Continue to enjoy your vacation, Mike. Joe Sudbay has been on fire this week!

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