10 States Most Dependent on the Federal Government

[KamaAina]

Guess what? Most of them are Red.

http://wallstcheatsheet.com/personal-finance/10-states-most-dependent-on-the-federal-government.html/

The political rhetoric between red and blue states is not likely to end anytime soon. According to a new report, residents in red states are more likely to receive help from the federal government, which helps them keep local tax bills lower compared to blue states.

WalletHub recently analyzed the disparity between states and their share of federal funding. The study was based on government data and the three weighted metrics listed below.

Return on taxes paid to the federal government: This illustrates how many dollars in federal funding state taxpayers receive for every one dollar in federal income taxes they pay. It excludes from the federal funding the loans/guarantees component because it does not represent permanent transfers from the federal government to a state.
Federal funding as a percentage of state revenue: This metric shows how much of a state’s annual revenue, and theoretically its spending, is provided by the federal government. Without this money, revenue would have to be found elsewhere – perhaps via tax hikes – or else key state services would suffer.
Number of federal employees per capita: This metric speaks to the federal government’s role as a nationwide employer, indicating the percentage of a state’s workforce that owes its very livelihood to Washington.

Red states are known for imposing lower taxes than blue states, but it appears they are able to do so because they are more dependent on federal funding. There was a 34.4 percent correlation between a state’s federal dependency and its tax rates, meaning the more dependent a state is on the federal government, the less likely it is to charge high tax rates. Red states had an average dependency ranking of 33.5, while blue states ranked 19.2 on average. Let’s take a look at the 10 states most dependent on the government, according to WalletHub.

[uponit7771]

1. 9 out of 10 are red states

[Roy Serohz]

10. What a shock!

[KamaAina]

2. Maine, Montana and New Mexico are rather purplish

Gov. LePew only got in because it was a three-way race. He sleazed in with 38%, just beating out the independent, with the Dem trailing badly.

As for New Mexico, Tejana Susana's surname may have pushed her over the top with Latino voters.

[hughee99]

6. West Virginia too.

WV has a Dem governor, and Dems run both houses of the state legislature, although they went red in both the last two presidential elections.

[KamaAina]

7. It does seem to trending redder than it once was, however.

Repukes bust unions for a reason, you know.

[TygrBright]

8. We are definitely more "blue violet" than "red violet."

Susie Tex was bought and paid for by the oil & gas industry, and they still own us.

sadly,
Bright

[procon]

3. Dang! This is nothing but a red state ripoff.

I live in a blue state and I'm being screwed twice by these Republican con men. They brag about their low-low taxes to lure businesses out of my state while using my taxes to prop up their scam.

[KamaAina]

4. You got it!

Welcome to DU!

[Doctor_J]

5. The ward states are the ones that are continually asking for the government

to get off of their backs. Ignorant hypocrites.

[TygrBright]

9. Not us! New Mexico needs MORE help, but we're shy of asking...

...when we already get so much.

Even so, we have incredibly difficult problems here that our owners in the oil & gas industry don't want to deal with. And yes, we're a bunch of stubborn, independent hicks, but we know which side our bread is buttered on.

We need VASTLY more help than we're getting with behavioral health care, especially since Susie Tex trashed what little BH infrastructure we have.

We need VASTLY more rural healthcare assistance, forestry and land management support, watershed maintenance and management assistance, alternative energy development seed money, affordable housing assistance, education upgrades, transportation infrastructure development and maintenance and a whole lot of other kinds of help.

Decades as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the oil & gas industry has not been helpful, not at all.

sadly,
Bright