It's a trend: California gives more than it gets. Each year less and less. (tho during the Reagan defense buildup, more monies poured into the state than went out)
California remains the government's largest single source of taxpayer dollars, flooding the U.S. Treasury with $256 billion in taxes during the past fiscal year. But the state received just $206 billion back in federal spending, according to the California Institute, a think tank based in Washington, D.C.The state's share amounts to a 77-cent return for every dollar that Californians send to Washington, compared with an 82-cent return the previous year. In three years, it was a decline from 88 cents.
That's for federal tax, and for gasoline tax as well:
California is the largest source of revenue from the 18.4 cents-a-gallon federal gasoline tax, which largely fuels the Transportation Department's budget, but annually sees a shortfall in what the state gets back.
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