I don't think this is true across the board- do you have a source? Looking at https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2013/decembe

I don't think this is true across the board- do you have a source? Looking at https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2013/december/taxes-transfers-redistribution-us-federal-government-states/ https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi..., I see a lot of relatively low tax states that have a positive net transfer to the federal government.