The mentally (or at least factually) challenged Peter Bruin Hays III writes a charming letter to the New York Times in which he calls Tom Friedman´s equation of tax cuts with service cuts as Blue State "elitist thinking."
Mr. Hays III does live in one of those rarities - a "red state" which is a net contributor to the rest of the country - but as this table makes clear most Bush voting states are sucking at the federal government teat.
