The fact that you have chosen to quote the combined state and local taxes rather than the states themselves in a conversation where I have focused exclusively o

The fact that you have chosen to quote the combined state and local taxes rather than the states themselves in a conversation where I have focused exclusively on state budgets makes me doubt your sincerity. And to the original point, high levels of deficit spending by states are by themselves an indicator of reliance on spending by the federal government, which is the guarantor of state debts. I'm not going to re-find the state tax receipt number; you can do that yourself, and you should have already considering the amount of numbers you've bothered to find.