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That chart has floated around for years. Read the fine print. It’s meaningless. Social security counts as government spending. Military pay. Etc. of course Texas receives more with the ports, border, large military bases, etc. the red states tend to be better for retirement and that counts as government spending
Read the fine print indeed. You didn't read any of it. It's not a chart that has floated around for years, the report is from March 2023. Don't try to jive me about something you obviously haven't even looked at. Specifically addressed:
Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act ($8 billion), the Families First Coronavirus Response Act ($22 billion), Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) ($1,760 billion), Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act ($483 billion). The Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSA)(991 billion), and the American Rescue Plan (ARP) (1,962 billion).
In its sixth annual analysis
So if you're just joining us, wintermute believes Biden caused inflation, Trump handled the pandemic brilliantly and that most of the emergency pandemic relief funds disbursed by the federal government went to social security and military bases.
I on the other hand, don't believe Biden is able to cause inflation, I feel the pandemic could have been better handled, and I am curious to see what Biden's departure from supply side thinking will bring. I suspect that recovery from so many years of neoliberal policy will not be quick or easy, but I feel it is necessary unless one is resigned to the possibility of the USA breaking apart.
This has been a Bongo Stryker report. God bless you, and God bless America.