Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
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But the ariticle contains this rather shockingly offensive, and journalistically unprofessional, passage: "It doesn't hurt that those lightly populated farm states exert a disproportionate influence in Washington, since it takes far fewer votes to elect a senator in Kansas than in California. That means agribusiness can presumably ''buy'' a senator from one of these underpopulated states for a fraction of what a big-state senator costs." I think I speak for natives of thinly-populated states everywhere when I say "fuck you, you self-righteous, anti-federalist, unamerican pinko, if I were a senator from Kansas I'd sue your ass for libel."
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Come off it. The major reason why small states regularly get more from the federal government than they pay in is because of their representation in the senate. Maps like this where NY and CA lose are typical.
http://www.nemw.org/winlose.htm
