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Luis Chavez: “In the south, in the midwest, they on average get a dollar…”

Featuring: Luis Chavez, Fresno County Board of Supervisors, District 3 | California

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Published | Video Starts at 29:13

California only gets about 80 plus cents for every dollar that we sent to the federal government back to our state. So we're essentially subsidizing a lot of these states. And In the south, in the midwest, they on average get a dollar 30 for every dollar they said. So I think it's time that we end up getting a lot of the bulk of those dollars because we have a lot of the population and we're going to need those dollars for our infrastructure in the future. (29:13–29:20)

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Asserts that southern and midwestern states receive $1.30 for every dollar they send to the federal government.

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