re: Top 10 States Most Dependent on the Federal Government

Does this account for the military institutions in the state? I read a similar article before that took into account Red Stone arsenal, etc., and it scewed the amount of funding the state of Alabama receives from the Feds.

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I can tell you the business leaders and middle class in west-central Louisiana are going hard to the hoop to keep Fort Polk open regardless of whether there's a national security need for it. I daresay the vast majority of those folk vote GOP and are against government largesse-except when they benefit from it.

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And that's what happens when you get people dependent upon the Federal Government.

And people wonder why Jindal won't take the "free" Medicaid money.

notice that tarp is missing along with the gm and chrystler money, how about the trillion dollar bailouts New York banks received? nope no mention.
Funny how hacks work aint it

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Does this account for the military institutions in the state? I read a similar article before that took into account Red Stone arsenal, etc., and it scewed the amount of funding the state of Alabama receives from the Feds.

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Typically, these "studies" don't exclude true general welfare items like defense and border security that benefit the entire nation, regardless of where the spending occurs. In fact, I think this article mentions that.

I once clicked to the source of one of these and did exclude defense. I got a slightly different Top 25:


Then I looked up census data and converted federal spending to a per capita stat. Probably a few years ago, but I wouldn't expect today's results to be too far different:


Now, what was the point of this thread again? Because it seems like it was a shallow-minded attempt to set (yet another) hypocrisy trap. Maybe that's just me, though...

Link to what programs are funded by that federal money in each state?