This has long been true of the southern states, but the conservatives in these states don't believe it.
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13385
Submitted by mark karlin on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 1:38pm.
Yes, it's true, as BuzzFlash at Truthout documented a short time ago, the State of Mississippi (MS) "sucks up $2.73 in federal support for every dollar its residents pay in national taxes." In the dog-whistle language of the right wing, that makes the state where 66 percent of GOP voters believe in creationism, an official "welfare state."
In short, the MS state government run out of Jackson is a leech upon the US government, but try telling that to Mitt Romney.
While pandering for votes in Mississippi before the recent presidential primary, Romney declared: "If the federal government were run more like here in Mississippi, the whole country would be a lot better off." Say what?
Romney, the man who would be president, is saying that Washington DC should emulate a state propped up by federal subsidies -- arguably the poorest and least educated state in the Union.
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That doesn't prevent the MS legislature -- and Gucci lobbyist turned governor, Haley Barbour -- from preaching "states' rights" while depending on financial support from Washington.
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