2006-06-15 15:25![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
digitaldiscipline
digitaldisciplineNPR's been doing a series this week on some of the Hispanic perspectives on the whole immigration debate (and I was pleasantly surprised to hear Carlos Mencia on Monday morning); today's commentary was from Univision News anchor Jorge Ramos, and the NPR site has a chapter of his book, Untied States of America [pdf], which contains the following interesting table of data.
[fuck it, my table got hosed - see page 3 of the pdf]
In short, it looks like both Republicans and Democrats are being true to form when it comes to the derogatory financial policy stereotypes - the Republicans are supposed to be cheapskates, and the Democrats spendthrifts.... and, based on the top tax money recipients (9 of 10 are red states) and those states that get back the least bang for their tax buck (8 of 10 are blue)... the Democrats give more money to the governmnent... which is then promptly given out to Republicans.
I thought that the talking heads said that the poor, over-taxed Republicans were unhappy that their tax dollars were going to support all those Democrats on the dole... But from here, it looks like the GOP is the biggest financial whore going.
[fuck it, my table got hosed - see page 3 of the pdf]
In short, it looks like both Republicans and Democrats are being true to form when it comes to the derogatory financial policy stereotypes - the Republicans are supposed to be cheapskates, and the Democrats spendthrifts.... and, based on the top tax money recipients (9 of 10 are red states) and those states that get back the least bang for their tax buck (8 of 10 are blue)... the Democrats give more money to the governmnent... which is then promptly given out to Republicans.
I thought that the talking heads said that the poor, over-taxed Republicans were unhappy that their tax dollars were going to support all those Democrats on the dole... But from here, it looks like the GOP is the biggest financial whore going.
