Subject: Re: [LPNY DISCUSS] Another reason to loathe republicans Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:54:49 -0500 To: From: Bob Armstrong I dislike PDF because it's either difficult or impossible to= extract data from it . Luckily , the Tax Foundation has the same info at= http://www.taxfoundation.org/pr-fedtaxspendingratio.html which= I could cut and paste . I have appended the computed discounted table below . On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:34:28 -0500, Gary Popkin wrote: >=A0>From: Gary Snyder >=A0> >=A0>BTW, the states are, of course, a net "giver", as a HUGE= chunk >=A0>of that money never makes it to ANY state. >=A0> > >=A0I have created a folder in the Files section of lpny_discuss= called >=A0GaryPopkinsStuff. =A0Into it I have placed, among other things,= the complete >=A0report from the Tax Foundation on the Giver and Taker states.= =A0It says (in >=A0small print) that the states receive back from the feds 83% of= the money >=A0they send (page 12). =A0The remaining 17% goes to foreign aid,= interest that >=A0is not allocable to the states, and "other" (federal salaries,= bribes, >=A0corruption, etc.). =A0The dollar amounts for the expenditures to= the states in >=A0the tables and figures in the report are "adjusted" upward so= that total >=A0expenditures seem to equal total receipts. =A0So to read the= report correctly, >=A0we must undo the adjustment. =A0For example, the report says that= New York >=A0State gets back 85 cents for every dollar sent, but it's really= 85 cents on >=A083% of every dollar sent, a rather different figure. =A0I leave= it to Bob Cosy >=A0to do the math for us and report back (Greg, you can do it,= too, and check >=A0him. =A0Multiply .85 by .83 and tell us what you get. =A0I hope= it's not more >=A0than 100%.) --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 CoSy MidWinter Party : http://cosy.com/y04/MidWinter17.htm Computing Environment : =A0http://CoSy.com/CoSy/ -- Total 1.00 0.83 Alabama 1.54 1.28 Alaska 1.68 1.39 Arizona 1.18 0.98 Arkansas 1.38 1.15 California 0.86 0.71 Colorado 0.85 0.71 Connecticut 0.62 0.51 Delaware 0.84 0.70 Florida 1.00 0.83 Georgia 0.99 0.82 Hawaii 1.56 1.29 Idaho 1.30 1.08 Illinois 0.74 0.61 Indiana 0.92 0.76 Iowa 1.04 0.86 Kansas 1.02 0.85 Kentucky 1.41 1.17 Louisiana 1.39 1.15 Maine 1.32 1.10 Maryland 1.32 1.10 Massachusetts 0.86 0.71 Michigan 0.81 0.67 Minnesota 0.76 0.63 Mississippi 1.78 1.48 Missouri 1.26 1.05 Montana 1.59 1.32 Nebraska 1.09 0.90 Nevada 0.69 0.57 New Hampshire 0.71 0.59 New Jersey 0.66 0.55 New Mexico 2.03 1.68 New York 0.86 0.71 North Carolina 1.06 0.88 North Dakota 1.86 1.54 Ohio 0.97 0.81 Oklahoma 1.46 1.21 Oregon 0.93 0.77 Pennsylvania 1.06 0.88 Rhode Island 1.18 0.98 South Carolina 1.27 1.05 South Dakota 1.46 1.21 Tennessee 1.20 1.00 Texas 0.96 0.80 Utah 1.06 0.88 Vermont 1.08 0.90 Virginia 1.48 1.23 Washington 0.87 0.72 West Virginia 1.75 1.45 Wisconsin 0.83 0.69 Wyoming 1.09 0.90 Dist. of Columbia 6.49 5.39 -- The code used to read clean compute and output the table was : .r : 0: "/cosy/tmp.txt" / read std io file"/cosy/tmp.txt" 0: *= .r { -1 _ 1 _ 1 _' ( 0 , & 0 =3D #:' x ) _ x } @ ( .R `DRB )' .r : Q : + r[ ; 0 2 ] Q[ 1 ] : ( .R `evaln )' Q[ 1 ] : Q : Q , , .83 * Q 1 .r : ( ( .R `pad ) Q 0 ) ,' ,/' + 8.2 $ Q 1 2 "c:/cosy/tmp.txt" 0: $ r / -1 # .S