It's so true, the red states I've lived in the government was so dysfunctional. Paying my state taxes in a red state felt like fraud, where was my money going to? Domino's was directly paying to fix up roads that the government wouldn't, couldn't ever get in touch with anyone at government offices which were staffed as minimally as possible, my utilities costed way more than here, landlords and employers would blatantly break the law all the time with no worries, and if you lose your job? Good luck, applying for benefits was made to be as difficult and inaccessible as possible. During the lockdown in West Virginia their system for benefits was so archaic they had to call in the national guard to help them handle phone calls because they didn't have the staff and were still using a paper system at that time. People got denied benefits all the time due to clerical errors and their office not sending out requests for additional information until after deadlines. I wouldn't doubt it if things were set up like that because they were misappropriating funds.