Cherry picking on this board will get your ass handed to you, sport.
The source is the same one I posted and the points in my post are not contradicted but rather supported by your article, in its ENTIRETY.
The methodology they used is the same in both pieces, and most of the economic basket case 'taker States' are GOP voting.
They really should get off of their asses so that they'll need less money from more prosperous Blue State economies.
The states receiving the most from Washington on a per capita basis tend have relatively large poor populations that depend on federal assistance programs like SNAP (formerly known as food stamps) and Medicaid.
On the flip side, the states that give more to the federal government than they receive tend to have higher income residents. Exceptions include states like Maryland and Virginia, which, though they are wealthier states, also benefit from disproportionately high federal funding partly due to their large defense contracting sectors.
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