Yes, I’ve seen data like what Wiki presents elsewhere. It does a good job in defining exactly what the revenue side of the government income from state is but woefully incomplete in its description of the specifics of the payments to the states.
My questions on data like this would be something like this:
Does it include things like EITC payments to California citizens?
Are things like overall SNAP expenditures broken out from the total to show state data?
I just find it difficult to taken in that a state budget like CA has with its deficit and some pretty serious resource and energy problems, that it is such a producer that it is the “engine of the world” so to speak.
“I just find it difficult to taken in that a state budget like CA has with its deficit and some pretty serious resource and energy problems, that it is such a producer that it is the “engine of the world” so to speak.”
Well, despite our government, we are still the largest economy in the country and by a wide margin (I imagine we are still in the top ten world economies).
But our state budget is a shambles and is so largely due to the gold plated retirement benefits we give our PE’s.
As for “resource and energy problems,” I am assuming you mean the draught and perhaps the fact that we will most likely be shuttering our nuclear plants over time. Right now out water situation is a lot better than it has been in dry periods before ( not that it’s rosy at the moment), and at least we don’t use coal to fuel our power plants.