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In an episode of "The Good Place" I just watched today, there was a joke about Florida: "possession of a non-fried vegetable is a felony in Jacksonville".

Now I feel like it's me who's living in a crazy TV show.

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Florida is a lovely place. People are fiercely independent in strange ways. Let California be California and Florida be Florida.

Let each state be an experiment, we’ll see who wins

Can we remove entirely or allocate an equal amount of subsidies to each state in order to compare each experiment on equal grounds? (looking at Alabama and similar states that get more federal funding than they contribute)

The end result of this is that you're taking funding from programs that support the poor in Alabama.

In the GP's comment, it's all a grand experiment...maybe they should move to better states? </sarcasm>

At the same time, it's not like all the funding is actually going towards those who need it: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/us/brett-favre-welfare-mi...

"Why don't the poor just get better jobs?"

Same energy

Let's do it. The imbalances you refer to are largely a result of policies advanced by states such as California: sharp progressive taxation and government programs.

Why? Pretty sure it is a normal thing for politicians to pass laws that protect industries within their localities. Beef production is a billion dollar a year industry in Florida. Would people be up in arms if Gavin Newsome and the California legislature passed laws regulating lab grown avocados?

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