The Tea Partiers Are Not Home.

       You remember how the Tea party movement started, don't you? "Taxes were too high and they had no say in Washington, right?" Well, it turns out the answer is Wrong! That's right actually the Tea Partiers were giving and receiving the exact opposite. And they still are, according to an article in the N.Y. Times today. How can this be, you ask?
       It's simple, the way we're governed is by a President elected by the electoral college. Now aside from whether or not you like the E.C., you've got to agree that it gives more political weight to smaller more rural states. Its simple math. A state like Wyoming with a small population gets more power, per capita, than New Jersey, the most densely populated state in the country. The reason is that every state gets two extra votes, one for each Senator.  Wyoming with a small population has two Senators, just as New Jersey does.
       And as for taxes, Well, "for every dollar paid in taxes by New Jersey taxpayers, it gets back about 61 cents in goods and services. But for every dollar Wyoming taxpayers pay in taxes, it gets back $1.11." If you want to have more say and pay less taxes, you'll have to move to someplace like Wyoming. As the article says, the real Tea Party is in the Blue states, not the red ones. Those red staters are just a bunch of whiners. They're the ones who've got it made.
       And all this time I felt a little embarrassed for cheating the poor red staters. Turns out those red state folks have been bamboozling me. It just ain't right. Just because they've got all those "wide open spaces" that need to have interstate highways with nobody living nearby to pay for them, why do I have to pay for them? And what about power and telephones and police to protect them
Wyoming folk? How come I'm paying for them?  The electoral college, that's how come.