California paid $456 Billion in Federal Taxes in 2018 (Montclair, Columbia: income, live)

[18Montclair]

Thank you to my fellow hard working Golden Staters for continuing to do your part to prop up a nation that largely hates our guts.

State/Federal district
or territory Gross collections
($ in 000) 2018

California $456,555,954
Texas 280,048,364
New York 281,220,376
Florida 205,694,126
Illinois 161,189,282
New Jersey 138,976,784
Ohio 140,891,209
Pennsylvania 136,268,950
Massachusetts 117,998,443
Minnesota 99,354,057
Georgia 92,804,948
Virginia 84,844,999
North Carolina 82,539,491
Michigan 83,256,186
Washington 90,404,108
Missouri 63,139,167
Maryland 72,561,209
Tennessee 68,888,235
Connecticut 53,729,155
Indiana 58,698,927
Wisconsin 51,992,826
Colorado 58,707,795
Arizona 46,226,885
Louisiana 41,982,123
Oklahoma 27,908,169
Kentucky 34,754,947
Arkansas 32,029,540
Oregon 33,802,142
Kansas 25,813,743
District of Columbia 28,443,717
Nebraska 25,312,311
Alabama 26,724,809
South Carolina 28,552,567
Iowa 25,111,982
Delaware 19,038,671
Utah 23,401,402
Nevada 23,317,912
Rhode Island 14,725,607
Mississippi 11,460,401
New Hampshire 12,291,272
Idaho 10,858,404
New Mexico 9,002,297
Hawaii 9,591,724
South Dakota 8,200,403
North Dakota 6,578,855
Maine 7,925,462
West Virginia 6,911,139
Montana 6,229,347
Alaska 5,287,377
Wyoming 4,930,650
Vermont 4,417,527
Puerto Rico 3,443,334

TOTAL $3,444,039,309

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fede...venue_by_state

[Tulemutt]

Monty’s at it again

*Incoming!*

[Csonka]

seems about proportional to our population

[dcisive]

Gee no wonder they can bankroll all those illegals

[Antab]

Originally Posted by Csonka

seems about proportional to our population

Yeah would be nice to see that on a per capital basis.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by Antab

Yeah would be nice to see that on a per capital basis.

I did a quick table and CA comes in at #15 or mid pack but that's not per tax payer since a lot of people get money back. DC came in #1 by headcount from latest census. DC, Delaware then Minnesota of all states. Not sure why DC is in that table since it's a federal district.

But I'm just wasting some time at work so not time to validate.

[Elliott_CA]

Originally Posted by Danbo1957

California also gets more federal money than it pays in federal taxes per year. And the state still taxes it’s own citizens up to 13+ percent on income.

California is a donor state, we pay more to Washington DC than we get back, especially after the SALT repeal.

I wish my income was high enough to pay 13 percent state taxes. That's a problem I wouldn't mind having.

[payutenyodagimas]

absolute numbers mean nothing coz CA is also the most populated state so its just natural that CA pays the most.

the numbers should be converted into ratios/percentage like CA pays 20% of all federal taxes while it has only 13% of the population (my numbers are not correct, just an example)

[CaliRestoration]

I'd like to see a list of City-Data net positive tax payers in California for 2017 or 2018. I'd probably be in the Top 3-5% easily.

I'd be willing to bet $1,000 cash that half the people who think lists like this are somehow self explanatory don't appear in the upper 50th percentile.

[509]

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

Thank you to my fellow hard working Golden Staters for continuing to do your part to prop up a nation that largely hates our guts.

State/Federal district
or territory Gross collections
($ in 000) 2018

California $456,555,954..............................


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fede...venue_by_state

As a former policy analyst for the Federal government I am ok with your numbers, however, they need to be adjusted for population.

Large population states will pay more in taxes. AND California being the largest state pays more than other states.

BUT California is very much a RICH/POOR state with the 1% generally paying less than their fair share in taxes. It is really the middle class that pays the bulk of the taxes.

So I ran a few numbers simply dividing the 2018 Federal collections by 2018 population.

Here are a few states that are higher than California.....

District of Columbia 40,491,187 per person
Massachusets 17,095, 899 per person
New Jersey 15,600,114
New York 14,390,409
Ohio 12,052,860
Washington 11,996,949
Maryland 12,008,045
Connecticut 14,317,599
Nebraska 13,120,163
Delaware 19,684,491
Rhode Island 13,927,936
Illinois 12,651,114
California 11,541,710

I didn't do ALL the states, but it appears that the pattern is the states with LOTS of Federal, State and Local employees tend to pay the highest Federal taxes. Which makes sense, since "wage slaves" have very few deductions and most government wages are higher than the private sector (full disclosure...in many cases this is due to governments hiring more educated and skilled employees than the private sector)......this can be a good or bad thing depending on your views.

I lived in California during the "golden years in the 1960's and 70's. It received MANY, MANY more dollars from the Federal government during the period of time than it paid in taxes.

The Federal spends money on defense, old people, and poor people. Really those are the bulk of Federal expenditures. California drove the military out of the state during the early 1990's, the bulk of the old people come from the middle class and California has been bleeding those for almost three decades now.

Outside of California, people don't hate the state. BUT we would like you to pay your fair share given how many wealthy people you have relative to the other states.