[leakinInTheBlueSea]

Cite your sources please... doesn’t jibe with my personal experience and colleagues in other parts of the country (I.e. I make more and pay more fed taxes while they live in MUCH nicer homes, etc.).

[Brown Deer]

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/15databk.pdf

http://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/tables/2010-2016/state/totals/nst-est2016-01.xlsx

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/12databk.pdf

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/11databk.pdf

http://www.census.gov/popest/data/state/totals/2012/tables/NST-EST2012-01.xls

[palmer]

FWIW there's Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_tax_revenue_by_state

Looks like CA and TX are about equal in per capita tax payments and ratio of the economy. Table includes all taxes not just income. Neither state holds a candle to Minnesota for tax payments. What's up with Minnesotans? They probably send in extra payments because it's the right Scandinavian thing to do.