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The poor pay very few taxes on the Federal Level so of course while you are correct that a certain amount of taxes is paid on the state level, all that would mean is that there should be a certain amount of votin rights given on a state level.
It is interesting to note that it would seem to be more then a coincedence that States are far more conservative as a whole then the Federal Level.
As for which economic model works bettter.
First off from a HI standpoint the HI given “free’ in Europe basically works unless someone os seriouslly ill.
And one would think that some consideration should be taken of the fact that European Model Economic Policies are failing left and right and dragging the entire world down with it.
Your arguements might have worked a decade ago but now?