knb comments on New Year's Predictions Thread - Less Wrong

18 Post author: MichaelVassar 30 December 2009 09:39PM

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Comment author: knb 08 January 2010 08:10:12PM *  0 points [-]

Actually, Texas does contribute more than they get back. Texas gets 94% of federal tax contributions back. California gets 79% back.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/1397.html

Based on that map we can also see that more agriculturally focused states do well from federal tax dollars. I assume this is mostly farm subsidies.