“taker states like Ca, NY, NJ, Mass, Il. “
Surprisingly enough, NY State residents and businesses pay more out to the fedgov than the the fedgov sends back to NY State.
Liberal destroyed freedom restricted demonrat run NY State is - believe it or not- a maker state.
It pays for all its social welfare programs by taxing the living shit out of any person or business unfortunate enough to be here.
What's surprising is that people who're supposedly conservative keep coming back to this thoroughly silly argument. No economist to the right of Paul Krugman takes this claim seriously. It is based on tax revenues from high cost-of-living states like NY being arbitrarily assigned into states where lower contract or wage costs prevail. You are getting a bargain by having your Federal taxes paid into states where the cost of wages is lower. The benefits still accrue to you no matter where you live. You think a military base nominally in South Carolina is Federal money going back to South Carolina? Good grief.
The Federal government is a black hole. The money that goes in is always more than is ejected back out to the states. The money is wasted on parasites called bureaucrats who always vote Dem. So, of the 60k spent on welfare slugs, 22k goes to the slug and 38k goes to the government parasites.