[MSF BU]

Eh, this Red/Blue state canard about taxes takes a much different hue when it is broken out by county. There are a lot of really left counties in Mississippi, Texas and Arizona and they use an extraordinary amount of welfare, SNAP, etc. I also don't consider a military member the same as a food stamp recipient as an 65 year old veteran on social security with $880 extra coming in a month because he finished his twenty in the Reserves.

Typically the calculations used to get to the figure you cite don't delineate they type of federal money coming in to the states. The fact that blue states are net contributors because they have a large number of corporate headquarters reporting their taxes from that zip code doesn't mean squat really.

[moehoward]

“Typically the calculations used to get to the figure you cite don’t delineate they type of federal money coming in to the states. ”

CA, often sited as a net payer is not really. Sacramento says it is, but only by a couple percent. TX and FL, also sited often, would probably rank similarly to CA if they had gone along with Medicaid expansion.

[Mariner]

“Typically the calculations used to get to the figure you cite don’t delineate they type of federal money coming in to the states.”

CA receives the most in military spending. AND the most in welfare spending.

But their taxpayers pay so much that they are still a net donor state.