Federal Spending Per Dollar of Tax Collected (by state)

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Clearly not as cut and dry as I had expected. Florida isn't a net donor state while Indiana is? Very surprising!

Federal Spending Per Dollar of Tax Collected

By comparing each state’s share of federal spending to its share of federal taxes, we can see what states might call "the bang for their buck." ... The data presented in Figure 1 and Table 1 show which states are the biggest beneficiaries of federal fiscal operations and which are the so-called donor states.

New Mexico is the biggest beneficiary, with a federal spending-to-tax ratio of 2.00. That’s another way of saying that for every tax dollar the federal government takes from the people of New Mexico, $2.00 in federal spending goes back into the state ... Other states with high federal spending-to-tax ratios are Alaska (1.87) and West Virginia (1.83).

The donor states are those where so much is collected in federal taxes that the federal dollars they receive are overwhelmed. With a high FY 2004 federal tax burden per capita (141 percent of the national average) and a below average amount of incoming federal funds (78 percent of the national average), New Jersey has the lowest federal spending-to-tax ratio (0.55) and is therefore the nation’s biggest net donor to federal fiscal operations. The 0.55 ratio means that New Jersey receives 55 cents in federal spending for every dollar its taxpayers send to Washington. New Jersey received almost four times less what New Mexico receives for its tax contributions. Other states that had low federal spending-to-tax ratios in FY 2004 are Connecticut (0.66) and New Hampshire (0.67).

Source: http://www.taxfoundation.org/files/sr139.pdf

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The green states contribute. The red states mooch.

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yawn

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Its interesting how it almost lines up with:

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Its interesting how it almost lines up with:

It is interesting, isn't it?

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Another...

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Good fine, illumine!

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Good fine, illumine!

There's quite a few, but sadly, not many for 2006-newer....

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That's ok, I doubt Missouri has suddenly become a fountain of uber-productivity since 2006.

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It is also surprising that MI actually contributes more tax to exchequer (how, when the state has chronic trouble?) than it gets back.

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It is also surprising that MI actually contributes more tax to exchequer (how, when the state has chronic trouble?) than it gets back.

this makes me a little angry, considering MI has the highest employment rate and the state of some of the infrastructure. I guess someone's got to pay for farm subsidies in other midwestern states.