Kentucky's gravy train is now in danger, thanks to Mitch McConnell's heartless greed

[applegrove]

Kentucky’s gravy train is now in danger, thanks to Mitch McConnell’s heartless greed

Apr 25, 2020 1:47pm by kos, Daily Kos Staff

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/1940305

Kentucky *took* $148 billion more from the federal government than it gave.

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Looks like it’s time to reexamine Kentucky’s privileged status. 

Blue states have been happy to carry the burden of funding red states for … kinda forever. California, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, in particular, have pumped untold hundreds of billions over the last several decades into mostly rural red states. 

That dynamic carries forth in states themselves, with large urban centers paying for rural regions, like the upstate-downstate divisions in Illinois and New York, or Philly-central Pennsylvania. 

And that would be fine! Liberals are okay with helping out those that are less well off. Liberals have no problem with the federal government subsidizing telephone and mail service to rural areas—services that would not be justified by capitalistic math. We’re okay subsidizing rural health care. We’re okay subsidizing rural education, or opioid treatments, or transportation networks (e.g. roads). 

The problem here isn’t our willingness as liberals to help our disproportionately rural Conservative brothers and sisters. The problem is twofold: 1) the bullshit pretense that these same people are “anti-government” and that urban liberals are somehow feeding off the government trough, and 2) the refusal of these same assholes  to help when blue states get hit with catastrophe. Instead, Mitch McConnells and his asshole buddies suddenly discover the evils of the budget deficit—a deficit that wouldn’t be so large if Kentucky wasn’t bleeding the country dry.

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[Demovictory9]

1. kick

[arthritisR_US]

2. Damn straight!

[SunSeeker]

3. Mitch will try to ram through all kinds of shit in the next 9 months.

He knows time is running out, Shitler will be out of office soon.

[IcyPeas]

4. Thanks gov. Cuomo

For pointing this out.

[liberalla]

5. Yes, yes, yes! I love how this blew up after his comment on blue state bailouts...

All thanks to Gov. Cuomo!

[calimary]

20. We've got a new ask about that this week.

“Tell Mitch McConnell What He Can Do With His “Blue State Bailouts”.

[flying rabbit]

6. oh yeah

[Newest Reality]

7. Finally!

Time to reckon with that.

[roamer65]

8. It's time to make the red states pay their own way.

Their Repuke ilk were the ones who messed with the SALT deduction, hurting states like NY and CA.

Time to even up the balance sheet by pulling back federal money from them. Let them raise their own taxes if they want to spend more.

[cstanleytech]

13. Exactly!! For to long they have used other states tax money that they get via federal help to

artificially keep their own taxes lower.

[Lock him up.]

9. And they want Civil War 2

They should seriously think about it seriously.

[rusty quoin]

10. Why don't we win back government and go after the red states?

Why don’t us blue states want revenge? Because we don’t think like that and we realize that most people are good. Trump is evil. He is probably the worst in American history.

But those who follow him are fewer. Fuck them. It’s not about revenge. It’s about normal.

[roamer65]

12. It's about fairness, not revenge.

States like TN use this imbalance to get away with crap like not having an income tax. Pull the money from them and make them raise their state taxes.

CA and NY have higher state income taxes and should not also have to fund this BS.

It’s called taxation without representation.

[DanieRains]

19. And Then Their Electoral College Votes Are Twice As Much Too

Screwage.

[ProfessorGAC]

25. I'm Thinking Like That

Maybe not before, but since Gingrich I'm getting angrier & angrier.
We tried the "we go high" thing for a long time.
Enough. Bare knuckles. Slap them into reality.
I'm sick of it!
We played nice. We took the high road.
We got Gingrich, 43, the tea party, obstructionism, and now PINO. Eschewing revenge is not working.

[bluecollar2]

27. +100...n/t

[cstanleytech]

11. Fully agree and in fact Pelosi and the other House Democrats could use their budget powers as

a carrot and stick and should relocate as much federal funding from deep red states to purple and light red states to help sway the voters like the Republicans have been doing to help them win in the deep red states.

[roamer65]

14. +1000000

[cstanleytech]

15. What can I say.............I think its time to starve the red snake as its to venomous to be allowed

to live.

[roamer65]

16. I'll even criticize my own state, Michigan.

We have a flat rate state income tax. It’s utterly idiotic.

It should be a graduated income tax like NY or CA. I would pay MORE, as I should.

I would top the sucker out at 15 percent for those making more than $1M and use the money to fix the GD roads.

[Hotler]

28. Nancy would have to stop playing nice to do that. nt

[applegrove]

17. People have to decide if they want to be part of a country or be a wholly owned subsidriary

of a few plutocrats come November.

[rusty quoin]

18. Maybe we can. I have always been willing to turn things

I have kids too old enough to vote. That’s the way.

[dchill]

21. Yeah, good.

[DENVERPOPS]

22. Does anyone remember

how he persuaded a Russian oligarch to bring his Alum producing business to Kentucky??????????

Maybe Mitch can ask him for a job in the near future......

[SleeplessinSoCal]

23. What will Rand Paul say about this?

Anything?

[no_hypocrisy]

24. If Trump is The Emperor Without Clothes, then Mitch is the guy who killed

the goose that laid the golden eggs.

[Chainfire]

26. The money going to Kentucky

Is helping desperately poor people. I will not celebrate families being abandoned in order to make McConnell look bad.

I would celebrate McConnell being held responsible for his part in a criminal conspiracy against the American people.

[crickets]

30. This. nt

[klook]

32. True in probably every "taker" Red state.

This is why Republicans hate things like Medicaid expansion: it helps the poor, whom they regard as lazy and shiftless.

I think of these dollars going from New York, California, et al. to Mississippi, Alabama, et al. as being a lifeline to our brothers and sisters living in the belly of the beast.

[MagickMuffin]

29. MoscowMitch would just go running to Putin for funding

I think that's the hidden plan. Make states go bankrupt and then let putin and Russia buy up the land!

[Chainfire]

31. The Real issue with McConnell

Is he doesn't give a rat's ass about the poor people in Kentucky. He is engrossed in destroying the American judicial system to benefit the Fascists and doesn't have any time for people, especially poor people. While Trump represents the stupidity of American politics, McConnell represents the evil. Mc is a mobster of the first order.

[VladmireTrumpkins]

33. Really pissed

When I think of that back ass place and how much they take and how little they give ...and how they then turn around and elect McConnell and Trump... it makes me wish we could sell the whole damn state to Greenland!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

34. Nahh

Sell them to Duarte a racist pig nutcase criminal psychopath like they like living under..

Just let the liberals in the beast's belly move to the blues..first.

[flibbitygiblets]

35. Mitch is (thankfully) in danger too! McGrath for Senate 2020!