[Walts Ice Pick]

Yes, indeed.

States like New Mexico and Mississippi have become increasingly dependent on states like California for their support. New Mexico and Mississippi receive twice as much federal government subsidies as they pay in taxes. Such parasitic states have grown increasingly dependent upon states like California and New Jersey (which pay far more in federal taxes than they receive in federal spending).

A table of this Donor vs. Parasitic state relationship can be found here.

States like California aren't the source of the the federal budget problem. We need to do something about the dependency that has developed in the Parasitic states.

[marktwain]

The idea that some states whose citizens are taxed more by the federal government than others, then must get more federal spending than others is a non argument. States are not taxed, citizens are. If those citizens choose to spend their careers in a high tax State like California or New Jersey, then leave that State when they retire, federal dollars for Social Security and for Medicare will follow them.

It makes no sense to say that because citizens of one State are taxed more than another, that the federal government then owes that State more than another. Would you make the claim that because a citizen pays more taxes than another, that the citizen should be the recipient of more federal dollars?

It is not reasonable to make this claim. It is simply worded to make it sound reasonable. The State is not being taxed. The citizens are.

[webstersII]

“States like California aren’t the source of the the federal budget problem.”

California has representation commensurate with its population. For years they have been sending Democrats to D.C. to vote for liberal policies.

You can’t absolve Cali and the other liberal meccas for the federal problems.