Yeah, I’m all for reminding Red States that they are dependent on Blue states when they talk about secession (cuz FAFO), but this is not an imbalance that needs fixed. Like individual costs can be wasteful spending, but wealthier states taking care of poorer states or safer state paying for disaster relief in more vulnerable states is just good sense and how a unified nation should be. It’s the same reason wealthy individuals should be more responsible for taking care of the less wealthy or poor individuals too. This is not a game of “fuck you, got mine.” We should not be encouraging the hoarding of wealth when others are in need, whether individuals or states. There are plenty of reasons to be angry with red states, but their geography or poverty (the actual poverty itself, not the policies that contribute to it) are not those reasons.
Yeah, I’m all for reminding Red States that they are dependent on Blue states when they talk about secession (cuz FAFO), but this is not an imbalance that needs fixed. Like individual costs can be wasteful spending, but wealthier states taking care of poorer states or safer state paying for disaster relief in more vulnerable states is just good sense and how a unified nation should be. It’s the same reason wealthy individuals should be more responsible for taking care of the less wealthy or poor individuals too. This is not a game of “fuck you, got mine.” We should not be encouraging the hoarding of wealth when others are in need, whether individuals or states. There are plenty of reasons to be angry with red states, but their geography or poverty (the actual poverty itself, not the policies that contribute to it) are not those reasons.