Missouri has several huge military installations, two of the countries largest IRS facilities employing 10's of thousands of govt people, two of the largest defense contractors in the country that receive 10's of billions of dollars each year. It's not like the federal government is giving this money away to welfare recipients here, lol, as it does in huge urban areas like Los Angeles and New York.
That is why liars figure and figures often lie. When I lived in NYC, Nelson Rockefeller used that argument about NY paying huge taxes and getting nothing in return. It went over well with the welfare people in NYC. Then some smarty did his homework, did the real math and showed how NY was a winner not a loser. Rockefeller never used that ploy again.