“Not By Much” The information you are referring to is accurate in the aspect of Texas NOT GIVING MUCH back to the Fed during certain years. Now I want you to do a quick little run-by on what years Texas was NOT GIVING MUCH. While your doing that little search, also take a look at what years hurricanes caused THE largest forced evacuation and one of the largest human migrations ever.

Oh, hah! The oil $$ yes- Us Texans must be bathing in the shit!

LESS than 5% of Texas GDP comes from Oil. Id love to mention all the other successful industries here in Texas- but it would be much more of an experience if you actually took the time to research it.

Then after realizing the naivety of your assumption on the aspect of typical Texas stereotypes, sit back and ponder how the hell a Texan just educated you- cuz, we all dum ya know?

This whole porkocracy argument is moot-both sides utilize it to varying degrees. It's called a smokescreen issue.

Given that the individual tax rate is low (no income of state sales tax because the lower 48 essentially is taxed for the money Alaska receives) I'm surprised Palin isn't even more popular… Remember that not only is there no state income tax in Alaska, its citizens actually receive a check from the state on the petroleum revenue collections…. And as I pointed out, if the lower 48 buys petroleum, then it's actually on our backs that Alaskans are among the wealthiest per capita of all US states.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/2268…

It's actually pretty interesting. Most of the blue states pay more to the federal government then they receive back. Whereas red states tend to receive more money from the federal government than they pay to the fed. gov't in taxes. There are exceptions. TX for instance pays more in fed. taxes than it receives (though not by much), though TX does have all that oil money….

One would think that all those red state people would be happy that the blue staters are sending $$$ to them…. But those crazy red-staters just don't know a good thing when they see it.

But seriously… it is interesting (at least to me) and I've thought of lots of other demographic information that would be interesting to study in conjunction with the tax burden.

Alaska is the only state that does not collect state sales tax or levy an individual income tax. To finance state operations, Alaska depends primarily on petroleum revenues. Some of its cities and other local jurisdictions, however, do collect sales tax revenue. More on Alaska taxes can be found in the tabbed pages below.

(tabs are at the links)

I do, however, share the heartburn about a state with the 4th highest GDP and less that 800,000 citizens asking for (and receiving) federal dollars for internal projects.