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One of our worst performing states is the very Republican (in 2016, Trump got 62.5% of its votes) State of Kentucky. It’s an embarrassing drag on our nation’s budget and economy. WalletHub identified Kentucky in 2017 as the state most dependent on the federal government, and a 2007 Tax Foundation Study (examining the period 1985-2005) found that Kentucky consistently received more from the federal government than it paid in. The numbers in Kentucky are dire.
In fiscal 2016, which ended last Sept. 30, the federal government collected $34 billion in taxes from Kentucky but spent $89 billion there — resulting in a net benefit to Kentucky of $55 billion (about $12,500 for each person in that state). By contrast, the federal government collected $109 billion in taxes from Massachusetts in 2016, but spent only $62 billion there. That's $47 billion less than it paid in taxes.
Kentucky
34. Munfordville: Ku Klos Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
35. Glens Fork: Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
36. Corbin: New Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
quote:Originally posted by Fencer: No brains required, enlist now.
No brains, no talent, no skills, and no potential.
Little wonder they want to bring back slavery so Negroes can help them make something of their pathetic selves. No doubt that these people WERE NOT contributors of European history and no wonder they want to steal history from others. They are basically a whole state of government welfare recipients that cannot even manage to break even, but take in more government welfare than they are capable of producing. Interesting that so many young ashkenazi Jews are enlisted. People say that Israel is the new Nazi Germany. With the same Russian Jews in Israel and the US khan, it makes sense.
This was the ideal state for the Incompetent Knights Of America (IKA/Klan) to make their national headquarters.
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No small surprise that Kentucky voted overwhelming for Donald Trump. Trump too has a long history of extreme incompetence and imbalanced dependence on government assistance to both build his fortune and to save his ass when his incompetence on four occasions drove his business into bankruptcy.
Trump is the prime example of a government welch. A pig feeding greedily at the government sloop pile, just the same as the KKK state, Kentucky.
If you examine the life of Donald Trump's father, Fred Trump, you will find that he built his fortune the same way by depending on public housing grants from the government.
Trump has thrived with government's generosity
The potential presidential candidate and opponent of big government has relied on tax breaks and federal funding to build his real estate empire.
Trump, 64, was launched into the world of million-dollar deals by his father, Fred C. Trump, who left a $250-million estate based partly on building government-backed housing for middle-income tenants in Brooklyn and Queens. Early in his career, Donald Trump abandoned his father's formula and instead made a name for himself developing luxury hotels and apartments in Manhattan. But like his father, he continued to rely on government incentives.
Trump's first major real estate triumph in Manhattan was to buy and transform the Hotel Commodore, a derelict colossus at Grand Central Station. He was 27 when he persuaded the city and a state development corporation to back him in the makeover and enlisted Hyatt to operate the new hotel, which would be called the Grand Hyatt.
Under pressure from Trump, whose father was a longtime political ally of then-Mayor Abe Beame, the city granted the project the 40-year full property tax abatement.
Karen Burstein, a former auditor general of New York City, reviewed a major Trump project in the 1980s and concluded he had "cheated" the city out of nearly $2.9 million.
"It's extraordinary to me that we elevated someone to this position of public importance who has openly admitted that he has used government's incompetence as a wedge to increase his private fortune," she said in a recent interview.