Thursday, February 26th, 2009

All you need to know about Louisiana

★ Read this on TPM this morning. The New York Times hit the nail on the head.

Louisiana has gotten $130 billion in post-Katrina aid. How is it that the stars of the Republican austerity movement come from the states that suck up the most federal money? Taxpayers in New York send way more to Washington than they get back so more can go to places like Alaska and Louisiana. Which is fine, as long as we don’t have to hear their governors bragging about how the folks who elected them want to keep their tax money to themselves. Of course they do! That’s because they’re living off ours.

Read the full article here.

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One Comment on “All you need to know about Louisiana”

  1. Dec 21, 2009 - 5:24 pm
    Brittani Dezzutti

    Just what I needed! This page should be on the first page of the results but it isn’t.

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