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Originally Posted by RainMaker
Idaho gets back $1.21 for every $1.00 they pay in. They are a welfare state.
I don't know where you got anything about the rich deciding anything. Just that if they want the federal government to leave them alone, maybe they shouldn't be sucking so hard from it's teat.
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If "Idaho" is one person with a cowboy hat sitting at a big desk somewhere, you might have a point.
The real world is a little more complicated though.
The rich rancher is not sucking from any teat. He's putting a ton more in than he's getting out. The single mother puts in nothing and gets a lot out. Neither has much control over what the fed does, or how Idaho's economy works as a whole. There are many others who are not as financially connected to the state, but have opinions about government in general.
Your views, as usual, would treat all these individuals the same. They're in Idaho, so they can't complain. If they move across the border into Wyoming (my best guess as a neighboring non-welfare state, but I have no idea), but otherwise are the same person, they can complain.