I've seen this meme a lot, with wildly different calculated values and outcomes. (But always confirming the political biases of the bubble it was shared in, of

I've seen this meme a lot, with wildly different calculated values and outcomes. (But always confirming the political biases of the bubble it was shared in, of course.) I'd really like to see a rigorous calculation and explanation behind the decisions, because I think this could be a useful stat for comparing states' fiscal success relative to one another. For example should the calculations include federal spend on federal employees? It's not really a reflection of the state's actions if the federal government happens to have a big agency headquarters there inflating the 'federal spend'.