Republicans and right wingers loooove to spout how much they hate big government and want to drown it in a bathtub.
Turns out when it comes to the real world they looooove them some Big Gubmint money.
A recent study by WalletHub.com determined that red states are much more dependent on federal tax dollars than blue states and that blue states are actually paying out considerably more than red states are. How wide a disparity is it? Blue states have an average rank of 18.3% as opposed to red states with an average rank of 33.2% The lower the % the less dependent.
The top 5 least dependent states are:
1 New Jersey
2 Delaware
3 Illinois
4 Minnesota
5 Kansas
California, Connecticut and Mass are next 3. Kansas comes in 5th. Which is probably why they're going fucking broke. The ideology there is soo extreme that Brownstain won't take ANY fed funding if he can help it as was shown by their refusal to take Obamacare money.
The top 5 most dependent states are:
46 Montana
47 Alabama
48 Kentucky
49 Mississippi
50 New Mexico
West Virginia, Arizona and Louisiana are next three. New Mexico it should be noted comes in last due to the fact that it has one of the highest number of federal employees outside of the DC area and also has a ton of civilian non defense federal employees.
A total of 19 out of the 25 least dependent states are blue. Conversely ONLY 7 of the 25
most dependent are blue including Maryland, New Mexico and Hawaii all three of which have a ton of federal employees.
Another republican talking point founded on bullshit. The truth is if the federal government stopped providing the red states with jobs and stopped providing them funds for roads, or FEMA money or ANY money whatsoever they'd be royally screwed. If the government was ever drowned in a bathtub, it would be the red states circling the drain first. Of course rather than admit their ideology is complete and utter crap, they'll no doubt all come out attacking the methodology of the study or try to debunk it somehow. I welcome them to try. The more they do, the more everyone will realize just HOW dependent the red states are on federal largess.
So um yeah basically they're a bunch of fucking hypocrites.