According to figures from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation, for every dollar South Carolinians pay in federal taxes, they receive $1.35 back. In other words, in 2005 (the last year for which comparable data is available) every single person in the state received $2,196 that he or she never earned. (Thanks to Obama’s fiscal wastrelry, the handout is even greater today.)
Of course, this free money isn’t welfare in the demagogic sense, i.e. a sop to the greedy needy. Gov. Nikki Haley, the Tea Party’s reigning princess, managed to cut $29 million from the state’s welfare budget last year, trimming fatty $270 monthly checks to families with two children down to $216. This year the state is projecting a $913 million increase in revenue, but Haley declares there will be no retreat to the charitable ways of the past. The extra money, she said last week, “should either go to tax relief, debt relief or back to the taxpayer.”
That would be the taxpayers of New Jersey, presumably. For every dollar they send in to the federal government, 35 cents doesn’t come back. It goes to some shiftless state unwilling to pull its own weight.
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