More likely than not, you're funding Sarah Palin's gubernatorial snottiness

[Miss Authoritiva]

More likely than not, you're funding Sarah Palin's gubernatorial snottiness

By Grace Nearing @ Scriptoids

As a tax-harassed New Jerseyan, I don’t want to hear this bogus crap about how the scrappy and feisty eater-of-moose-testicles Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska beat her state’s frontier-spirit budget (which is running huge surpluses) into submission. First of all, there’s all that oil money. Second of all -- and this is where I have to watch my blood pressure, Alaska gets lots and lots of money from the federal government while New Jersey does not.

This is most readily demonstrated in the statistics documenting how much federal spending a state receives per dollar of federal tax paid.

In 2005,* Alaska received $1.84 back from the federal government for every $1 in tax paid.

In 2005, New Jersey received 61 cents back from the federal government for every $1 in tax paid.

It sucks to be a New Jersey taxpayer.

In fact, for nearly 30 years, New Jersey has ranked, with one exception, 49th and 50th on federal spending for each tax dollar paid. The exception was the year we zoomed all the way up to 48th. Alaska’s ranking has varied widely over the same period, but from 1997 to 2005, it has ranked 6th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd, and 3rd, respectively.

It really sucks to be a New Jersey taxpayer.

Since 1997, Alaska has received anywhere from $1.84 to $1.34 in federal spending for each dollar of tax paid. In comparison, since 1997 New Jersey has received anywhere from 71 cents to 61 cents in federal spending for each dollar of tax paid.

What I want to know is this: If Alaska is running huge budget surpluses, why is the state still getting so much money back from the federal government?

Here are the tax charts for Alaska and New Jersey. For extra fun or plain aggravation, go check out your own state’s federal tax give-give back rankings here.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_FbaTT_Aky10/SMC6q9JHo-I/AAAAAAAAAIQ/UIIC2iYeUyc/s400/New+Jersey.jpg

*2005 is the most recent year data are available.

[Demeter]

1. Right On!

Consider Michigan, the Bangladesh of America, and in a similar tax-fed funds inversion....

[Oldtimeralso]

2. Proud To Be the Fifth

I'm from Illinois and since 1981 of the charts we have never been higher than 45th and even 50th in some years. Trickle Down has yet to reach Illinois. This is what I told my "blue collar for Ronnie" friends in 1980.

[K8-EEE]

3. She needs to RENOUNCE ALL THIS FEDERAL MONEY!

IMMEDIATELY! IT GOES AGAINST HER SMALL-GOVERNMENT BELIEFS!

[girl gone mad]

4. I like to refer to her as the Governor of the Socialist Welfare..

state of Alaska.

Republicans are usually taken aback, but it's fairly accurate.

[Patiod]

5. I saw an analysis like this 4 or 8 years ago

and it pretty much matches the Red State/Blue State map. Blue States GIVE to the federal government, Red States GET (and bitch and cry about their horrible, horrible tax burden).

[Usrename]

6. Per capita, it looks like an even bigger boondoggle.

Alaska rakes in over $8,000 per person, while New Jersey pays out over $3,000 per person.

:wtf:

Sarah Palin should have some splainin' to do. This should be the most important question put to her.