You could apply that same logic to the north of England, most of the tax is raised in the South East and London

Agreed, I would.

Scotland is receiving a massive cash infusion from English taxes. Easy to spend other people’s money.

M2 money supply actually had not increased for a while and only recently surpassed the previous peak in 2022. Meanwhile US debt and debt to GDP ratio increased modestly (and is in fact down from the COVID era peak ‘thanks’ to inflation) meaning that it’s mostly the treasuries market that was funding the new debt (i.e. borrowing)

EU wants phones to be locked down so they can then make Google implement mass surveillance for “national security” reasons

Too bad more often than not the kids that actually do homework do it only if their parents sit down with them every night to do it together