Let them go?

Of all the idiocies coming out of what remains of the conservative movement, one of the most asinine is the call for secession. These sore losers, who rise up to collect guns and pretend to pay attention to politics when their candidates are voted out of office, have been lead by some of their leaders to call for secession from the United States. These same people, of course, claimed to be the ONLY true Americans a year or two again.

Time after time studies have shown the RED or Republican states to be the biggest burden on the country anyway. They take a disproportionate amount of the Federal money and create a high level of trouble too. Not to mention that their backwards ideas have prevented this country from moving forward for generations.

This author says: Let them succeed! While I don't agree, it is an interesting point:

These secession movements are good news for Blue America. They should be encouraged. If Red America wants to be left alone -- and that increasingly seems to be the case -- then Blue America should not look this gift horse in the mouth.

Blue America has most of the money, and pays most of the bills already. Cutting out Red America will be a big win.

The best analysis on this matter comes from the Tax Foundation, a highly regarded Washington, D.C., think-tank that's been studying U.S. taxes and budgets since the 1930s. The foundation is non-partisan. Although, as an institution critical of taxes, it leans philosophically to the right.

Over the years it used to estimate how much the citizens of each state paid into the federal budget in taxes, and how much they received through federal spending. The net result showed which states were paying in more than they received, and vice versa. The foundation stopped publishing the research a couple of years ago, and the last analysis related to 2005.

However, the data are still instructive. The picture did not change much from year to year. In short: Blue America is paying in, and Red America is taking out