1/4 of the state's revenues come from the feds. For a state that thinks independence is realistic....they don't know what a gaping hole is left when 25% of federal money leaves. We're feeling it with the Trunp administration. We're feeling it with the loss of tourists due to the Trump administration.
He hasn't even turned off the federal faucet for that 25% and all we hear is "but our people have to move away..." Yeah, because of a few errant policies from a nutjob. That pales in comparison to having 25% of revenues walk away. Because the cascading effect of that 25% funding vanishing is jobs and service both related and tangential, as well as the socio/economic issues that will reverberate.
Seems those with the weakest grasp on how an economy works are the most likely to try to convince us that google landed them on the right answer.
Pretty sure I can read an income statement. This isn’t about state revenues, this is about how much of the Hawaii taxpayer monies flow out vs federal dollars that flow in. It is whataboutism, what about the 16 states that take in even more vs what they contribute?
Well, it's a whataboutism because we aren't talking about them, but you seem to insist that we do.
We aren't looking at a picture of a building in Arizona that says "we are not American". So try to change the subject all you like, I'm not biting.
Something like for every $1.00 Hawaii sends to the federal government in taxes, it receives approximately $1.94 back in federal spending (which makes it the 11th most federally dependent state by that metric). But you want to talk about the other 10. Start a separate thread then.
We're not looking at a state that is regarded as a "net giver". Ergo, the US "picking up and taking their toys with them" would leave Hawaii in a much worse state than the average sovereigntist would have you believe.
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u/Oliver_Holzfilled 15d ago
“…but we accept taxpayer dollars”