Tea Partiers on Welfare
September 1, 2010 at 11:05 AM Leave a comment
Have you heard about what’s going on in Colorado Springs, Colorado? The place is so anti-tax that they’re flat broke — so broke they’re turning off the street lights, letting the grass in parks die, and deputizing cab drivers to do the work of the police.
Colorado Springs is in El Paso County which was in the news yesterday:
El Paso County — home of Colorado Springs — received the most federal spending in fiscal 2009 of any Colorado county, $9.1 billion, followed by Denver County with $8.6 billion and Jefferson County with $5.7 billion.
Overall, federal domestic spending totaled $3.2 trillion in fiscal-year 2009, up 16 percent from the previous year. It was the largest year-over-year percentage increase since the Census Bureau began tracking domestic spending in 1983.
No doubt they’ll be turning away that $9.1 million any day now.
And then there’s this interesting little ditty about Alaska, where the Tea Party rules and everyone is supposedly rough and wild and independent, unlike the coddled wusses in the lower 48:
The states with the highest per capita federal spending were Alaska ($20,351), Virginia ($19,734) and Hawaii ($19,001). Those with the lowest rates were Nevada ($7,148), Utah ($7,435) and Georgia ($8,538).
So yeah, the anti-tax crowd is one tough bunch all right.
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