There is a saying here regarding Quebec sovereignty: "Sovereignty or Socialism? Pick one.":)
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Interestingly enough, this is one reason why we don't have bullet trains in Ontario: to keep Quebec in Canada, we've been paying for
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their lavish welfare state, to the tune of 4-5% of our GDP for the last 40 years. (Now that we're bankrupt, Alberta's being squeezed
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It's like we've been paying a Cold War military budget for almost half a century, with no infrastructure upgrades to show for it.
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hmm why does this sound like another country I knowpic.twitter.com/jM9pE5PkMe
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in map form--donor states in bluepic.twitter.com/wGIzCMfQ4l
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there are 2 kinds of donor states--the ones which refuse services (Kansas, Utah, etc) and the ones with rich economies
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wtf Washington State is supposed to be red, lemme fix that
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so to recap--there are two types of "donor" states and only one type *actually* does the donating
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that is, it's not Kansas that's paying Florida's pensions...it's New York, California, etc
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