Dylan Smith opined

On 2005-09-02, john smith wrote:
Stop blaming the federal government!
That's why this mess is so bad in the first place.
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If the Federal Government is supposed to have so little involvement,
what's the point of Louisiana being a state of the United States? What's
the point of all those Louisianans income tax that goes to the Federal
government? (the vast majority of their income taxes?)

Good question. As a rule, it costs a state over a dollar in taxes to get a
dollar of federal benefits.


-ash
Cthulhu in 2005!
Why wait for nature?