Auto bail-out facts: Tax burden v. tax pay-out in key states

[JDPriestly]

These are key senators from states that host foreign auto makers and who voted against bailing out American auto companies as well as the per capita share of the tax pay-out and tax bail-out in their respective states.

Alabama: Shelby, Sessions
per capita fed spending: 9,265
per capita fed tax burden: 5,436
Louisiana: Vitter
per capita fed spending: 8,815
per capita fed tax burden: 4,574
Kentucky: McConnell & Bunning(Ky)
per capita fed spending: 8,308
per capita fed tax burden: 5,275
Mississippi: Cochran & Wicker
per capita fed spending: 9,027
per capita fed tax burden: 4,287
South Carolina: DeMint
per capita fed spending: 7,531
per capita fed tax burden: 5,337
Tennessee: Corker
per capita fed spending: 8,062
per capita fed tax burden: 5,989
Texas: Hutchison
per capita fed spending: 6,509
per capita fed tax burden: 6,432

Here is the tax information with regard to Michigan, Ohio and California:

Michigan
per capita fed spending: 6,410
per capita fed tax burden: 6,562
Ohio per capita fed tax spending: 6,796
per capita fed tax burden: 6,135

**** California (also home to auto industry facilities)
per capita fed spending: 6,725
per capita fed tax burden: 8,047

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Here is the data on the big paying/low spending states

California 242,023 fed tax spending 6,725 231,975 289,627 fed tax burden 8,047 return on tax dollar 0.80
Nevada 14,089 fed tax spending 5,849 13,504 20,135 fed tax burden 8,359 return on tax dollar 0.67
Connecticut 30,774 fed tax spending 8,827 29,496 40,314 fed tax burden 11,563 return on tax dollar 0.73
Minnesota 31,067 fed tax spending 6,075 29,777 40,578 fed tax burden 7,935 return on tax dollar 0.73
New Jersey 58,617 fed tax spending 6,771 56,183 86,112 fed tax burden 9,947 return on tax dollar 0.65
New Hampshire 8,331 fed tax spending 6,393 7,985 10,649 fed tax burden 8,172 return on tax dollar 0.75

New York 144,876 7,521 138,861 168,710 fed tax burden8,758 return on tax dollar 0.82

http://www.nemw.org/taxburd.htm

Low wages mean low taxes. Taxes from states with strong unions support the workers without unions in Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas.

[Venceremos]

1. k&r

[Venceremos]

2. Good info

thanks for taking the time. Kick again

[ogneopasno]

3. The GOP votes represent economic terrorism at its finest. Thanks for putting this together.

[Johonny]

4. thanks for the info

[Venceremos]

5. kick again

everyone needs to see this info

[FormerDittoHead]

6. I find it how amazing it is that Calif. gets less from the Fed than it pays in taxes...

...and yet they're somehow considered a drain on the country.

Living in NJ, which gets the LEAST from the Fed as we pay in, I've been observant of how the Red States (including ALASKA!) are the ones which get the most from the gov't in proportion to what they pay in, and yet most of them STILL have crappy schools.

If these guys were eschewing their government pork barrel projects, then I could at least say they were consistent....

[FarCenter]

7. Its time to take a hard look at military suppliers, bases, NASA etc

Why are contracts going to Gulf Coast shipyards instead of Maine and New Hampshire?

How about closing some military bases in places like South Carolina, Texas and Forida, e.g. Tampa and Pensacola?

Manned-spaceflight is a boondoggle -- Close down Johnson Manned Space Flight Center in Houston. Also NASA in Huntsville.

Do we need Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennesee anymore?

[JDPriestly]

8. Good points. It's the good ole' boys' at work.