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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhich States Are Givers and Which Are Takers?
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/which-states-are-givers-and-which-are-takers/361668/?n53yym
***SNIP
The Wallet Hub analysts essentially asked how much each state receives back as a return on its federal income-tax investment. They compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia on three metrics: 1) federal spending per capita compared with every dollar paid in federal income taxes; 2) the percentage of a states annual revenue that comes from federal funding; and 3) the number of federal employees per capita. The third measure received only half the weight of each of the others in the calculation.
What the resulting map shows is that the most dependent states, as measured by the composite score, are Mississippi and New Mexico, each of which gets back about $3 in federal spending for every dollar they send to the federal treasury in taxes. Alabama and Louisiana are close behind.
If you look only at the first measurehow much the federal government spends per person in each state compared with the amount its citizens pay in federal income taxesother states stand out, particularly South Carolina: The Palmetto State receives $7.87 back from Washington for every $1 its citizens pay in federal tax. This bar chart, made from Wallet Hub's data, reveals the sharp discrepancies among states on that measure.
On the other side of this group, folks in 14 states, including Delaware, Minnesota, Illinois, Nebraska, and Ohio, get back less than $1 for each $1 they spend in taxes.
***just like wal-mart -- the states that receive the most can keep their state taxes low.
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Which States Are Givers and Which Are Takers? (Original Post)
xchrom
May 2014
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MisterP
(23,730 posts)1. decades of relentless political pandering has turned black into white:
"welfare" is for Blacks, not Whites, Duck Dynasty country (in the sense of an angrily self-aware Red region) is supporting both NY and CA singlehandedly, areas without sex ed can't have teen pregnancies, an extremely eccentric and novel theology is the original one that Jesus wanted, etc.
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)2. K & R nt
DemocraticWing
(1,290 posts)3. The point of the party is to help those in need.
I care little for terms like "dependent states." It sounds a lot like "47%" or "takers." If the people in Mississippi are poor and in need, I think they are victims of the system that deserve help from our social safety net. And that has nothing to do with how they vote, full stop.