Chart on Tax Revenue, Deficits

Take a look at this: The Red and the Black: Where Federal Tax Dollars Are Spent

Source: http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/08/americas-fiscal-union?fsrc=nwl

Interesting. The very states where the people are slamming big government and big taxes are exactly the places that get more in federal funding than they make in federal taxes.

But big government is a big baddy, telling people how to live their lives. I assume, of course, that every Republican governor who heads those states will immediately give back all federal funding.

No? Why am I not surprised?