This is very misleading since it is a table providing figures not normalized by income. Check the average income from states. People in MS are not allowed to make much money and hence don’t pay much. Why is CA asking for billions in bailout?
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Why would it need to be? This is a per capita measure. For every tax Dollar Mississippi pays into DC, it gets over 2 Dollars back. The actual total numbers involved are irrelevant. New Jersey is subsidizing expenditures in Mississippi, including expenditures for Federally-funded social services.
Check the average income from states.
It's one of the driving factors here- the poorer States tend to be "red," and they need more social services. They can't pay for them on their own, so they need other States to provide a subsidy.
People in MS are not allowed to make much money and hence don’t pay much.
They're not? I wasn't aware that there was some law limiting incomes in Mississippi.
Why is CA asking for billions in bailout?
Because California's government sucks? I wonder how much of a difference that bailout, if it does happen, will make to the chart, seeing as California currently only gets 80 cents on the Dollar back in Federal tax money.