I appreciate the link, though not the snarky attitude. Please keep your remarks polite and I will do the same.
As for the info at the link, I will cast a bit of doubt as statistics can be used to mislead. For example, your link shows the % of state population on SNAP. It is misleading to say that mississippi has a higher SNAP cost when the population of Mississippi is 2 or 3 million and californina is 40 million. So your link is still not convincing.
There was another table at the link which shows taxes paid vs benefits received.
That’s the important one, and one you may have missed.
You are misreading the chart.
The SNAP chart is the percentage of people in a state that receive food stamps.
Not total.
They are using it as a proxy for relative poverty.