[Citizen Blade]

That’s a very interesting chart. It seems to me that the numbers are in some way tied to population density, no? The more crowded a state is, it seems, the less bang for the buck they get.

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Population Density by State

But I think an even better correlation is the poverty level of a given state:

Poverty Rate by State

[ravensandricks]

Based on an admittedly cursory look at those charts, it would seem the tax returns track population density more than poverty.

Even if that’s not the case, what exactly is it that you’re trying to say: Red states bad, blue states good?