>For blue states You mean "NY, NJ, CT, and MA". They are the states that provide the vast majority of the surplus in federal taxes paid by its people versus ex

>For blue states You mean "NY, NJ, CT, and MA". They are the states that provide the vast majority of the surplus in federal taxes paid by its people versus expenditures to them and their states.[1] Four other states also have substantial surpluses, of which two voted for Clinton and Biden, and two voted for Trump both times. Every other state either breaks even (CA among them) or receives more than their people pay in taxes. Of the ten states that get back the most, five and a half (of Maine) voted for Clinton/Biden and four and a half voted for Trump/Trump. Source: Rockefeller Institute's annual studies on the subject. [1] Yes, they are all Democratic states today, but this was exactly the same a century ago, when MA and CT were solidly Republican and NJ and NY were swing states.