🪱 RED STATE PARASITES

California: The ATM for America’s Deadbeat States

Let’s get one thing straight: red states would be economically comatose without California. That’s not opinion—it’s arithmetic. The Golden State, with its $4.1 trillion economy, bankrolls the very federal government that turns around and coddles red-state beggars like Mississippi, Alabama, and Kentucky. You whine about socialism while suckling on California’s capitalist teat.

California pays far more in federal taxes than it ever gets back. It’s the second biggest net donor state in the entire country—only New Jersey, another blue stronghold, gives more. Meanwhile, the red states crying loudest about “government overreach” are the ones bleeding the Treasury dry. That’s right: the self-styled rugged individualists are actually the most dependent welfare queens in the union.

Trump’s cultists love to sneer at “woke” coastal elites, but they depend on us for everything—tech innovation, clean energy, cultural exports, and especially tax revenue. For every dollar red states put in, they take out far more. Blue states like California foot the bill. You call that freedom? Sounds more like freeloading.

So the next time a MAGA diehard mouths off about California, remind them: the roads they drive, the hospitals they exploit, the broadband they didn’t build—all made possible by a state they pretend to hate and desperately need.

California doesn’t just lead. It carries you.

—A Proud California Resident

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