Comment Re:California (Score 1) 37
Smells like manure.
Try state spending per capita. See, taxes like to be sneaky, while the spending part is much better documented.
Total State Expenditures per Capita
I tried to make this pretty, but the lameness filter said no.
Texas 4462 Montana 9257
Florida 5199 New Jersey 9292
Nevada 5690 Maine 9295
North Carolina 5825 Washington 9303
New Hampshire 5927 Louisiana 9376
Missouri 6149 Minnesota 9410
Idaho 6331 Illinois 9585
Colorado 6415 North Dakota 10443
South Dakota 6643 Wisconsin 10542
Tennessee 6751 California 10556
Georgia 6791 Maryland 10893
Utah 6812 Kentucky 10908
South Carolina 7193 Arkansas 11003
Oklahoma 7207 New York 11170
Indiana 7786 Massachusetts 11463
Ohio 7897 Rhode Island 11578
Alabama 7924 Connecticut 11686
Mississippi 8058 Vermont 12167
Michigan 8086 New Mexico 12433
Kansas 8224 Oregon 12677
Nebraska 8656 West Virginia 13108
Pennsylvania 8728 Hawaii 13342
Wyoming 9149 Arizona 14892
Virginia 9153 Delaware 14923
Iowa 9192 Alaska 21485
District of Columbia 27143