[RoseC@SEC.GOV: The Dollar]

[Alan]

Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote:

  > Agreed.  But several different analyses have shown that the red states
> get back more from the government than they put in in taxes.  For the 
> blue states, it is the reverse, they get back less than they put in in 
> taxes.
> 

Yeah, I've seen those.
It would be interesting to see a longer range study.
For instance, CA during the defense spending boom, FL during the NASA 
days. The rust belt during the car building heydey.

My gut tells me we'd see the spending ebb and flow with changes in the 
economy or we'd see it follow the population growth(or does population 
growth follow government spending? heh).

I'm sure some economist somewhere must be studying it.

-ajb