When it comes to misinformation, MSNBC’s Touré is a giver. Today he’s on about red states and blue states, and how blue states are the givers. We wouldn’t necessarily call paying taxes “giving,” and Touré’s followers aren’t ready to concede that conservatives are doing all the taking.
https://twitter.com/misteratlanta/status/371376474437070848
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/371376694474452992
https://twitter.com/AngryBaldwin/status/371376702233931776
Of the 22 McCain 08 states, 86% got more from DC than they paid in taxes. 55% of the Obama states got more from DC than they paid in taxes.
— Touré (@Toure) August 24, 2013
https://twitter.com/DaveDenomie/status/371381158023413761
But, numbers! Never mind what a certain former senator said about there being no such thing as a liberal America and a conservative America; there are now Republican states.
In 2010 Republican states, on avg, received $1.46 in federal spending for every tax dollar paid; Democratic states, on avg, received $1.16.
— Touré (@Toure) August 24, 2013
@Toure This is SO incredibly misleading! For example TX is a red state but Houston and Austin are huge blue cities full of fed$ recipients.
— Dan Groob (@TheDIG616) August 24, 2013
@TheDIG616 It's not misleading. Cities generate the overwhelming majority of wealth & GDP. Thus Texas, with it's big cities, is a giver.
— Touré (@Toure) August 24, 2013
@Toure But it's not the fed$ recipients who are generating the wealth. Or contributing to the generation of wealth in any manner.
— Dan Groob (@TheDIG616) August 24, 2013
Red states tend to send less to DC than they get because they tend to be more rural and less populous but that is not an accident.
— Touré (@Toure) August 24, 2013
You know what else some people say wasn’t an accident, right?
@double007sunny Texas is a red state that gives more than it gets but a rising Hispanic pop suggests Texas may one day be purple or blue.
— Touré (@Toure) August 24, 2013
Wealthier, more urbanized Blue states tend to subsidize poorer, more rural Reds. Just as urban counties subsidize rural ones within states.
— Touré (@Toure) August 24, 2013
@Toure wealthier urbanized places like Detroit?
— Greg Crawford (@GregCrawford) August 24, 2013
That’s not fair; everyone knows the Republicans running Detroit drove their city into bankruptcy.
@Toure Red states also give more in charitable contributions. Weird!!! http://t.co/AtAg8gGVwU
— Brett Hamlin (@BrettHamlin) August 24, 2013
Touré stopped making sense quite a while ago. Maybe it would make more sense to look at individuals and actual giving, not redistribution through taxation. Professor Arthur C. Brooks “assumed that the people who are most vociferous about socioeconomic inequality would give the most to alleviate it,” but proved his theory wrong through an extensive study that inspired his 2006 book, “Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism.” As Barbara J. Elliot explained:
Conservative households donate 30 percent more money to charity than liberal households, and they are more likely to volunteer as well. Why the difference? Brooks found that liberals view government redistribution as a “form of charity,” which they believe exonerates them from further giving. But it clearly is not the same thing. Charity is voluntary and taxation is not.
So, maybe it’s time to slash taxes, cut off the “takers” and see who complains.
@Toure ok. So who gets more government aid? People who voted for Romney or people who voted for Obama? Who paid more taxes? @JayCaruso
— Jay Boren (@borenjay) August 24, 2013
Liberals fight to help people with social programs then complain if people use them? Ok more @Toure "logic"
— Matt (@my2guns) August 24, 2013
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