You are partly right. Iowa is a net recipient of federal funds because of farm subsidies. New Hampshire and Colorado are net contributors. Virginia and North Carolina are teat suckers and consume more than they contribute.
The current system is purposely designed that way. It has been policy since Wilson's administration to tax the high producing northern states and to shift the money to lower producing southern states. Income redistribution if you will. Since that time three southern states have become net producers, Texas, Florida and I think that now Georgia has tipped the balanced. The rest are teat suckers.
Understood. I had thought NC paid more in taxes than it received in Federal funds. Hurricane Floyd proved that point to me vividly, when the Federal Govt left us with over $6 billion in cleanup costs we had to pick up ourselves.
Where can I find this info. Let me know, thanks!