New York, California, New Jersey, and a few other states PAY for this country. You “fly over” states mock us for our high tax rates, but the truth is if we didn’t pay the high tax rates we pay to subsidize y’all, YOU’D be paying MUCH higher taxes to sustain your money-losing states. It’s the great irony that WE in the more populous states support YOU through our higher taxes get derided for paying higher taxes to support YOU. Better you just say “THANK YOU” for us paying for you to live your low-cost lives. Or, better yet, just pony up and start paying more taxes to make your state sustainable WITHOUT NEEDING OUR help. But to criticize US for subsidizing YOU??? F off you ignorant wretch!!!