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Old 04-02-2012, 04:43 PM
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This doesn't take into account population though.
Yes, that first map does indeed, by comparing it directly to tax input. The biggest welfare states, the states that take out more than they contribute, and receive it in government handouts , the "welfare states", are the red states in the first map.

Whatever way you calculate it, it is the poorest states that have the most children on welfare, adults on welfare, both on Medicaid, food stamps, etc. Those are the red states that vote Republican.
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