Schwarzenegger says the stimulus worked

[RyanPaulShaffer]

Hardly. Common Courtesy was arguing, in essence, that blue states are in financial trouble because they can't control their evil liberal spending habits. I just pointed out that blue states are subsidizing you red states.

Uh...what? CC (his location is shown as Denver so I assume Denver, CO) lives in Colorado (#41 on the list), I believe (IIRC from previous threads) that Genx lives in Minnesota (#46 on the list) and I live in a state that is in the bottom 20 (pays more than a dollar and receives less than a dollar in aid). Who are these "you red states" that are being "subsidized by blue states" that you are you referring to?

I believe that CO and MN are pretty darn blue, and my state was blue for the 2008 elections.

 

[DucatiMonster696]

Now what does this have to do with state tax collection and state budgets? Are you proposing we eliminate the federal income tax code and let states survive on their own? Where do we sign up?

You and I know it has nothing to do with state budgets but everything to do with libs here changing the topic in order to shift the blame.

 

[woolfe9999]

http://www.census.gov/govs/school/
According to 2004 US Census numbers, California spends $11,245 per pupil, slightly under the national average of $11,495.* This places California 21st highest out of the 50 states and DC, not 47th.

Beware of blogs.

* See page 11 in the spreadsheet.

There is no inconsistency between this information and the information I provided. One is measuring unadjusted, raw dollars, where we usually rank in the low 20's, right around the national average, and the other is measuring it in area adjusted dollars. This latter method is the correct method if you want to analyze what's being spent in real dollars. You can't pretend that a $50,000 teacher's salary is the same in California as it is in Arkansas.

- wolf