This is what always ticked me off about the whole red states take in more federal taxes than blue states. First, the way this is calculated ignores SALT, ignores local income taxes, ignores unfunded liabilities in the future, to get its result. To call California somehow a non bankrupt, progressive, functional utopia is laughable at this point, and yet according to the (((data))) California is less broke than North Dakota. These states also completely ignore the roundabout way a Cali company can tap into another state's funds (Walmart comes to mind), by misdirecting where the funding comes from.