Screw The Red States: Elect Tea Partiers to High Office

[elfs]

If you're in a so-called "blue" state, you should vote Tea Party for federal office.

The stated objective of the Tea Party is to reduce the government to its sole two duties: treaties and other international deals associated with the State department, and securing our safety with the Defense department. Our taxes should be cut down to the bare mininum necessary for that arrangement.

If you're in a "blue" state, your state puts more cash into the national treasury than it gets back in federal disbursements. If the Tea Partiers get their way, then Washington, Oregon, New York, Maine, etc., will have more money per capita for the State government to work with, improving health care and roads and all that.

And the Red South will finally have its wish: the feds will leave them alone to sink into the swamps.

Seems like a win-win to me.

Comments

[kengr]

Trouble is, besides the disasters this would cause in all sorts of thing, there's the simple fact that their *actual* objectives bear no resemblance to their *stated* objectives.

All you have to do to confirm that is look at the ones already in office.

[tagryn]

"The stated objective of the Tea Party..."

Source?

(not being snarky, just that pinning down a consensus manifesto agreed on by their movement hasn't been something I've been able to find to date)

[elfs.livejournal.com]

That was something I heard from Mark Meckler on Hugh Hewitt's radio show. It does seem consistent with The Tea Party Patriot's Mission Statement (http://www.teapartypatriots.org/Mission.aspx).

[slfisher.livejournal.com]

that's great in theory, but then they cut the state budgets too, as well as gutting abortion rights, gay rights, education, etc.

It's all about money for you, isn't it?

[ideaphile.livejournal.com]

Since, in practice, Federal spending often has harmful side effects-- taking Federal money means accepting Federal regulations, for example-- I am sure most Tea Party members in the South would be happy to stop getting all that extra money.

You didn't think about that, did you?

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Re: It's all about money for you, isn't it?

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they would too. I'm sure the State of Washington would love to be free of federal regulation as well.

May the best state win.

(You don't seem to recognize sarcasm very well.)

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

I've contemplated that idea. Problem is, I grew up in rural Oklahoma, the very heart of Dumfukistan. I was raised by religious rednecks. If it weren't for public education, I doubt I would have got any education at all. It might have been impossible for me to flee to somewhere less stupid.

So yeah. It is tempting to let them burn when I think only of the adults who vote with such selfishness and hatefulness. But when I consider my childhood self and the other kids like me who are trapped there, I just can't in good conscience do it.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_candide_/]

It's odd, Elf. Living in NY State, I always hear "noise" about how our state taxes, "are driving companies out of the state" (but never with references to support this claim, of course). But the thing is, those tax dollars pay for infrastructure. Let's see how many companies leave a state with higher taxes for one with lower/no taxes — and consequently, poor infrastructure and services.