I'll just leave this here.

[spence]

A few things that are interesting about this chart.

Thing 1) The states with higher non-fed-tax-payers align roughly with the same states who consume a greater % of Federal dollars per person.

Thing 2) The % of non-fed-tax-payers doesn't appear to corrolate in any meaningful way with the usual arguments of state taxes, debt, regulation etc... as job killers.

-spence