Their methodology leaves something to be desired. The resident dependency score unfairly penalizes states that have large federal presences to to geography (li

Their methodology leaves something to be desired. The resident dependency score unfairly penalizes states that have large federal presences to to geography (like Texas and New Mexico). Furthermore, the idea of measuring state government dependence as a ratio is pretty much guaranteed to make states with low overall budgets look bad. The per-capita state budget contribution would be much more interesting.