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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (504522)	8/13/2009 1:45:07 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575517

"For example, AR pays a higher per capita federal tax burden than FL or CA." That doesn't pass the smell test. Given that wages are, on the average, lower in AR than in those states, that means y'all have some confounding factor that isn't immediately obvious. "One could argue, for example, that Texas OUGHT to pay more because Texas, with so much more area, ought to have the burden of a bigger allocation of national defense costs." Because, you know, the Badlands are such a prime target in case of global conflict... Can't you at least attempt to make a rational argument? "It really just depends on what you're interested in, and you guys are selectively picking figures that bolster your argument while ignoring those that don't. Which is the way YOU, IN PARTICULAR, tend to operate." This from the prime cherry picker on this thread? Can you say "projection"?