, Columnist
Think Carefully Before Cutting Off Subsidies to Red States
There are a few ways liberals could reduce the imbalance. But all of them play to conservatives' wishes.
True-blue New Jersey is a major donor to red states.
Photographer: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty ImagesThey earn much less than they spend, and they're not even embarrassed about it. Others (richer, better educated, and more all-around dynamic) have to send their hard-earned money to Washington, while getting precious little back in return. But these folks? They gorge themselves on government benefits … they take and take and take … and then actually they have the cheek to complain about the system that keeps them in welfare dollars and Medicaid checks.
I am speaking, of course, of the red states.