McPalin have jumped all over Obama lately as a "redistributor of wealth" and how his nefarious schemes will lead to the next USSR here in Amerika. But of course the hypocrisy of this line of argument stinks more than a field-dressed Alaskan moose. Palin's Alaska is #3 in states getting wealth redistributed back to them: $1.84 back for every $1 paid in taxes to be exact (see also here). So apparently Alaska is America's most socialist state ('guess that makes since they are so close to Russia with Putin rearing his head, etc.)
But I digress. We need not head to the Klondike for a heaping bowl of hypocrisy. Little Crawford, Nebraska (population 1107) just received a "big dose of federal dollars to help educate students in remote areas of Nebraska." $217,000 to be exact. There to present a ceremonial check was Nebraska's own Adrian Smith, never one to miss an opportunity to lecture the people on the GOP virtues of small government, why government shouldn't be interfering with the economy, etc. Unless, apparently, the redistribution of wealth tends to redistribute a little pork back into one of the troughs within his district. Nebraska, by the way, ranks #25 in taxes paid/benefits received ($1.10 benefits received for each $1 paid). In fact check out the ranking of states and see how many GOP-friendly red states are ones that receive more federal $$$ than they pay in taxes. Maybe they call them "red states" because they are red in the face with shame and embarassment at lecturing others about wealth distribution while pocketing most of that redistributed wealth themselves... ?
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