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          7 months ago

          They lose enough people moving to blue states that they keep taking more from the feds than they pay in and the status quo stays the same.

          Except they further cement their states as red states. Each of which has 2 senators who are less likely to flip. The status quo gets worse.

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      7 months ago

      let the states work on progressive policy like protecting trans, queer, etc, access to birth control, abortions, etc.

      That’s a great way to make those into Red State Problems that will never be fixed for the whole country, because legislators from blue states represent people for whom the problems are solved and experience no pressure to address the problems beyond that.