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Reader says New Jersey is a donor state getting back only 60 cents for every dollar to DC

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We pay the highest taxes in the country for a few reasons… first, 500 odd local municipalities with their own governments, schools, etc… that’s not cheap…. then you have some of our larger cities requiring taxpayer based support…and the north subsidizes the south county wise (kind of like a microcosm of the country)…. but, the biggest reason is that NJ is the most “independent” state of the federal government. What that means is that we are a donor state to the tune of 10’s of BILLIONS every year, with most of these funds going to red states… we only get back about 60 cents for every dollar to DC… Our reps on both sides totally shaft us… why does no one see that as an issue? If we got about 70 cents back for every buck, we could fund everything and run a surplus to boot… yeah, some of the pension stuff is over the top but no one says boo about the federal transfer of payments deficit that we have…

5 thoughts on “Reader says New Jersey is a donor state getting back only 60 cents for every dollar to DC

  1. This is not new news it has been going on for years and it is true our so called representatives do not do much of anything.

  2. The #1 taker is Sought Carolina. If you go to the SC T Party website it is all about big government and controlling fed spending. Are these people idiots? The main beneficiaries of fed largesse is South Carolina! Wait till the money stops rolling in, then what will they do?

  3. Hopefully secede…. 3rd time’s a charm…

  4. Paul, your comment is right on. Made me laugh also. Am on my way back from London and the plane thankfully has WiFi.

  5. That’s what you get for voting for weak dumbocrats . Booker, Mendez, corzine, Bradley ,Torricelli , lautenberg. They only cared about their fellow dumbocrats and forgot about nj as soon as they get to Washington

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