[quote=The-Shoveler]States that Give more to Fed Gov than they get.
Top 10
New Jersey, Nevada, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Illinois, Delaware, California, New York, Colorado.
Interestingly Texas for instance now gets more Fed money than it gives as of 2012.[/quote]
I’ve always thought these statistics are somewhat misleading because once you look at some of details you see some flaws. For example Delaware leads in net revenue coming in but why? Well that’s because Delaware corporate law is very favorable so there’s tons of corporations that base their operations in Delaware pay their taxes from Delaware but are actually operating somewhere else.
District Of Columbia is never mentioned as a taker state because it’s not a state but it has the biggest net taker status for obvious reasons.
New York and New Jersey benefit from being the Financial capital of the world and the masters of the nation’s money supply but in the event of a US country split could they really maintain that position.
The west coast has a fairly dynamic economy so maybe we’d fair better than other parts of the split US but out biggest concern would be securing energy. Although we’d probably be in better shape than the east coast in securing trade with Mexico and Canada for energy supplies.
