Either 1. Varrus has me on ignore or 2. he completely skipped over my post or 3. he didn't understand what the article I linked to was talking about, nor did he comprehend what the paragraph I posted said.
So, I'll repost:
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Research by the Tax Foundation casts the state-by-state contrasts in a different light, looking at what states get back relative to the tax dollars they send to Washington.
In a 2007 study (drawing on data from 2005) the Tax Foundation found that New Mexico ranked first, with residents getting back $2 in spending for every $1 they paid in federal taxes. The next leading states were Mississippi, Alaska, Louisiana, and West Virginia.
At the bottom of the list were New Jersey (residents got 61 cents for every dollar of taxes), Nevada, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Minnesota.
If New Jerseyites are paying $1 in taxes and only seeing 61 cents of those taxes returned to the state in the form of federal spending, it's no wonder that NJ is $4000 in debt for every person.
In contrast, it shows how fiscally irresponsible Alaska is that they get back $2 for every $1 they pay in taxes (e.g. they're on federal welfare), and yet they're still in debt over $1000 for every person.