The sheer loyalty you types feel towards a senile real estate trust fund baby who'd burn you like winter kindling is hilarious.
This chart useless without definitions and methodology employed. The "Blue" states have much higher taxes, fees, and fines in general than the Red states which causes the "information" in this chart to be suspect.
First of all... let's limit the definition of Takers to those taking public welfare benefits such as Section 8, EBT (food stamps), welfare, and Medicaid/CHIP. Hosting a military base does not make a state a "taker". The methodology used to generate the above charts is complete nonsense -- as been pointed out many times before including in USA Today articles.
Same old military nonsense, even accounting for military spending your side shits more than it eats. The methodology is from Tax Foundation who did the numbers and busted that lie. "As we have previously noted, these states, and others that rely heavily on federal assistance, tend to have modest tax collections and a relatively large low-income population." https://taxfoundation.org/states-rely-most-federal-aid/ Stop justifying mooching.
https://taxfoundation.org/states-rely-most-federal-aid/ https://taxfoundation.org/which-states-rely-most-federal-aid-0
Thank you for these citations. You have given me some homework to do, but according to Wikipedia.org they were founded on sound principles regarding taxation and would seem on that basis to be a very credible source.
This is old news, less education = low income which in turn leads to smaller tax receipts along with higher healthcare bills because less paying jobs don't provide good healthcare benefits, so it forces government programs to make up the difference. Medicaid was the biggest driver of costs in rural areas, plus the fact that Medicare recipients being older and conservative rack up the bills. Right-wingers don't like acknowledging these facts, they pretend all white Republicans are suburban soon to be millionaires and only blacks or browns are suffering.