April 27, 2006
CNN Money -- Why some states get less from Uncle Sam
Do you live in a "donor" state?
Residents of New Jersey do. For every $1 they pay in federal taxes, they get back just 55 cents in federal spending per capita.
Residents of New Mexico, on the other hand, double their money -- for every $1, they get back $2.
The Tax Foundation, a nonprofit policy research group that advocates for a flat tax, calculated the discrepancies between states in their bang-for-the-federal-buck using data from the Census Bureau for fiscal year 2004.
