Rich states like Oregon may get too large a share of Federal revenues while powerless states like Alaska with only Don Young representing them in the Congress don't get enough. Doesn't the University of Oregon get a lot more than the University of Alaska-Juneau in absolute federal revenue sharing and support for various programs?
One wonders why states that pretend to be ecologically progressive like Oregon get more in support for public transport busing that still use fossil fuels, why there is no coordinated ecological scorecard not only for Oregon but the entire nation equivalent to the public debt registers on the Internet? The national and world ecosphere status salient feature numbers should exist and continually be upgraded. CO2, amount of deforestation, reduction of ecosphere area, corruption of oceanic health, amount of new asphalt and concrete sq feet poured, remaining species (not yet exterminated) etc.
Progressive states that are rich should be on a from each according to their ability tax basis while poor red states should be on a to each according to their needs basis in order to let blue states feel good about themselves.
One wonders why states that pretend to be ecologically progressive like Oregon get more in support for public transport busing that still use fossil fuels, why there is no coordinated ecological scorecard not only for Oregon but the entire nation equivalent to the public debt registers on the Internet? The national and world ecosphere status salient feature numbers should exist and continually be upgraded. CO2, amount of deforestation, reduction of ecosphere area, corruption of oceanic health, amount of new asphalt and concrete sq feet poured, remaining species (not yet exterminated) etc.
Progressive states that are rich should be on a from each according to their ability tax basis while poor red states should be on a to each according to their needs basis in order to let blue states feel good about themselves.
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