Here’s a start. FY2023
Federal and State Share of Medicaid Spending
Posted on 07/01/2025 6:07:10 PM PDT by thegagline
About where Rome was in 550.
If the federal government takes your tax dollars and gives you comparatively little in return, they you are likely to vote for more and bigger government so they can continue to take more of your money and continue to give you little in return.
Include racial breakdowns in these numbers...
These stupid studies count things like Sic Sec that we paid for.
So in one state like Fla have more retired people their number goes up.
That way they can “conclude” red states get more than blue.
Of course blue state retirees flock to sunbelt states, which greatly skews the numbers. If all the NY and NJ retirees returned to their home states, these “deadbeats “ would be on the home states books.
Maryland is by far the most dependent state.
There’s a lot of money going to illegal aliens, social welfare, healthcare organizations, educational institutions and NGOs. And there’s been a lot of outright theft going on.
In other words, does every dollar paid by Apple count as coming from California? How about Ford Motor Co. and Michigan. and countless other examples?
Or is the number allocated, so that payroll taxes on employees in South Dakota get counted as South Dakota, or where the corporate office is located?
Tennessee be much more independent of FedGov if it weren’t for Memphis.
You forget the poorest of the poor Hancock County.
Bump for tomorrow. Two or three things skew these numbers heavily, so I’m not sure what exactly the numbers are really telling us.
Importantly, this data does not include Medicaid payments.
Followed by:
MoneyGeek’s analysis points to economic structure rather than ideology: energy extraction, military installations, and a high share of retirees often correlate with greater federal inflows.
Summary: In at least the two bold-faced items they say they're excluding a type of welfare payment (Medicaid) but including a type of payment that was at least somewhat pre-paid by the recipient (pension checks, perhaps SS checks). One would think they're intentionally slanting the information they choose to make it look like red states are the highest dependents on Big Govt, when it's probably the opposite that's true.
No wonder Van Hollen was crying when Garcia got deported..he lost one of his voters
Exactly.
But idiots buy it.
Include Medicaid
For those who bitch about California.
If it was run correctly, it would be at the bottom of the list by far.
That chart shows Maryland at #13 most dependent.
Here’s a start. FY2023
Federal and State Share of Medicaid Spending
“retirees returned to their home states, these “deadbeats “
Stupid post. Retirees are NOT deadbeat. Most worked their entire life paying income tax, property taxes and Social Securitie taxes.
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