Top 10 States Most Dependent on the Federal Government

Nb4demographics

How do they calculate the taxes, per person, or aggregate?

It's because those states have small economies without major industry.

Therefore, there will be more poor people, and less taxes paid.

Has nothing to do with the political views of the residents or how they vote.

Where would New York and Connecticut be if the government didn't give the banks sweetheart loan deals and cover all of Wall Street's bad bets?

Some of those states are because the Government owns so much land, and they are sparsely populated.

The southern states are due to demographics, lots of military bases, and lack of manufacturing.

The exodus of business from up North to the south will make this list look much different in 10 years as the South becomes more industrialized due to conservative policies.

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1) Return on Taxes Paid to the Federal Government;
2) Federal Funding as a Percentage of State Revenue; and
3) Number of Federal Employees Per Capita.

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1) Return on Taxes Paid to the Federal Government - Gee, gosh, golly, maybe that's why most of the states are smaller in population? they paid less in Fed taxes?

2) Federal Funding as a Percentage of State Revenue - Gee, gosh, golly, maybe because red states chose not to crush their citizenry with taxes, maybe?

3) Number of Federal Employees Per Capita - WTF kinda metric is that? Numbers for small states are easily tilted for Coast Guard, border guards, deseg cases, voting rights monitoring, atomic energy, This is BS

Looking at this list almost all of these states have lots of federal land (national parks, military installations, government offices/agencies), in addition to all the poor people (whites, blacks and Indians).

I would say it has a lot to do with the power invested in each Senator and the fact that the smallest of states have two each. I bet if you looked up the Senators for each of these states you would find the ones who are the largest sellouts.