Sending money to DC expecting to get even 80% of it back is a fool’s errand. The is heavy Bureaucratic Drag there.
Sending money to DC to do its Constitutionally limited tasks should have NO expectation of getting any of it back.
You have switched from being narcissisticly worried about your own tax situation to the aggregate for your State. What ever happens to the aggregate for your State can have a VERY limited impact on your personal budget/situation, unless you are a US Government Employee. So, what it it?
Or Gov’t Contract linked in some fashion...
Calif. used to have no shortage of those, AeroJet in Sac.
36 states get more money back than they send to DC.
Look at the Atlantic link I posted up thread.
I believe it’s North Carolina that gets back $8 for every $1 they send to DC.
And there’s 36 of them.
14 states get back less and they are paying the freight for all the other states.