dbackjon wrote:More followup on this
http://www.nemw.org/taxburd.htm
Defense dollars per state:
http://www.nemw.org/fedspend4.htm
South Carolina gets 120% of the average per capita defense spending.
Pork-Palin Alaska gets 351% of average per capita defense spending, AND 130% of all other federal per capita spending...
dbackjon wrote:More followup on this
http://www.nemw.org/taxburd.htm
Defense dollars per state:
http://www.nemw.org/fedspend4.htm
South Carolina gets 120% of the average per capita defense spending.
Pork-Palin Alaska gets 351% of average per capita defense spending, AND 130% of all other federal per capita spending...
Not fully - but there are other links off the main pageOL FU wrote:dbackjon wrote:More followup on this
http://www.nemw.org/taxburd.htm
Defense dollars per state:
http://www.nemw.org/fedspend4.htm
South Carolina gets 120% of the average per capita defense spending.
Pork-Palin Alaska gets 351% of average per capita defense spending, AND 130% of all other federal per capita spending...
That is not as large a percentage as I would have thought. did you find a break down of all expenditures?
If 100% is the total you can achieve, how can you have any more? I never understood that.dbackjon wrote:More followup on this
http://www.nemw.org/taxburd.htm
Defense dollars per state:
http://www.nemw.org/fedspend4.htm
South Carolina gets 120% of the average per capita defense spending.
Pork-Palin Alaska gets 351% of average per capita defense spending, AND 130% of all other federal per capita spending...
Arizona...135%...dbackjon wrote:More followup on this
http://www.nemw.org/taxburd.htm
Defense dollars per state:
http://www.nemw.org/fedspend4.htm
South Carolina gets 120% of the average per capita defense spending.
Pork-Palin Alaska gets 351% of average per capita defense spending, AND 130% of all other federal per capita spending...
Let's see...travelinman67 wrote:Arizona...135%...dbackjon wrote:More followup on this
http://www.nemw.org/taxburd.htm
Defense dollars per state:
http://www.nemw.org/fedspend4.htm
South Carolina gets 120% of the average per capita defense spending.
Pork-Palin Alaska gets 351% of average per capita defense spending, AND 130% of all other federal per capita spending...
Virginia...430%...
Per Capita...
...and the point is?
I'm not dissin' Virginia...just sayin you can't use the defense spending per capita figures to judge a state's military pork...or worse, try to equate it to the state population's poverty level or intelligence quotient.Col Hogan wrote:Let's see...travelinman67 wrote:
Arizona...135%...
Virginia...430%...
Per Capita...
...and the point is?
Virginia has the Pentagon....
And once I googled all the other bases, came up with too many to type...
Here's the list
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/military/milbase.html
travelinman67 wrote:I'm not dissin' Virginia...just sayin you can't use the defense spending per capita figures to judge a state's military pork...or worse, try to equate it to the state population's poverty level or intelligence quotient.Col Hogan wrote:
Let's see...
Virginia has the Pentagon....
And once I googled all the other bases, came up with too many to type...
Here's the list
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/military/milbase.html
NY has Fort Drum?...and how about RI and CT per capita figures?...just saying this is an apples and oranges argument...
this is what we should call our just due........REMEMBER SHERMANS MARCH?OL FU wrote:travelinman67 wrote:
I'm not dissin' Virginia...just sayin you can't use the defense spending per capita figures to judge a state's military pork...or worse, try to equate it to the state population's poverty level or intelligence quotient.
NY has Fort Drum?...and how about RI and CT per capita figures?...just saying this is an apples and oranges argument...
The point wasn't military pork. It was trying to understand why some states might receive a proportionally higher amount of fed money than taxes paid. No one was complaining about military $. Just looking for reasons for some of the other percentages.
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