Break out your apologist hats and spin-books, GOP folks because the latest and greatest assessment of states giving and taking from the federal dole was released. Illinois ranks #2 (shared with Minnesota) and just under Delaware for supporting all your other dead asses with a paltry 56¢ coming back to the state out of federal taxes paid to the government. I'll let you all be "surprised" by the other results including the "red state/blue state" breakdown. Anyway, being at the top allowed me to formulate some thoughts about the other 97%.
All right, there are 97 percent who are with federal welfare, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for federal welfare no matter what. These are people who don't pay enough income tax for what they take. Ninety-seven percent of Americans don't pay enough income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn't connect. And so my job is not to worry about those people—I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.
Edited, May 7th 2014 10:40am by Jophiel