New Study Confirms (Once Again) - Republican States Are MORE Dependent On Government

[kpete]

Republican-leaning states are a lot more dependent on the federal government than Democratic-leaning ones.

That's according to a recent analysis from the personal finance site WalletHub, which ranked states based on how much they rely on Uncle Sam to support their state finances. http://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the-federal-government/2700/#barry-rabe

To calculate states' dependence, WalletHub analyzed three metrics: how much a state gets in federal funding per every dollar it pays in federal income taxes, the percentage of state funding that comes from the federal government and the number of federal employees per capita, both military and civilian.

Check out the map below to see how dependent your home state is compared to the rest of the country. The most-dependent states are shaded white, and least-dependent states are shaded blue. A ranking of 1 indicates least-dependent, while 50 represents most-dependent.





MORE:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/24/most-dependent-states-in-the-us_n_6930634.html

[bigdarryl]

1. If you told those hillbillies that they wouldn't believe it

Unbelievable

[Takket]

2. yeah they tell us they are all "independent"

and that us liberals are entitlement moochers.

Bullshit.

[MisterP]

3. too bad they'll literally just invert the numbers and pass that around

that way you set up a false equivalency when you have two identical-but-flipped lists floating around the emails and they can accuse US of inverting the numbers