“California and New York spend 2.5-3 times what Texas and Florida does.”
Nonsense.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/states-with-the-largest-budgets-per-capita.html
Certainly CA lives within its means. More so than the 29 listed here..
Statistics. I didn’t say per capita you did.
California spends $227 billion. Florida spends under $94B.
I fail to see what per capita has to do with it, same roads and highways just more crowded in California.