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To: sylvester80 who wrote (1121941)	3/2/2019 9:19:50 AM
From: Garlic Breath	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576350

I appreciate the article and I've read that before but it didn't say why certain states receive federal assistance. One of the reason is population. Red states are less populated so don't have the tax revenue to maintain infrastructure and social services. If you look at the big cities in the red states they are generally run by democrats requiring more assistance. It's not that simple though. I live in a blue state lead by a Republican.

To: sylvester80 who wrote (1121941)	11/11/2020 1:36:48 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1576350

From that link ------ State Government’s Dependency – Total Points: 50 Federal Funding as a Share of State Revenue: Full Weight (~50.00 Points) Note: This metric reflects the proportion of state revenue that comes from the federal government in the form of intergovernmental aid in 2017 --------- In other words if a state taxes and spends less its government is counted as being more dependent. Take any state. If two states were exactly identical in every way, including getting the same amount of dollars from the feds (and dollars per person since they have the same population, and dollars per size of the states economy), and they had the same taxes and the same spending levels, and then one of them decided to cut taxes and spending it would suddenly show as being more dependent.