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State Finances
As Democrats and Republicans battle over the budget, The Daily Beast crunches the numbers to see which states take more from D.C. than they send back—and which states get shortchanged.
#1, Mississippi
#2, West Virginia
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#3, New Mexico
#4, District of Columbia
Charles Dharapak
#5, Hawaii
Bayne Stanley
#6, Alaska
SEANNA O'SULLIVAN
#7, Alabama
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#8, South Carolina
#9, Montana
GEORGE LANE
#10, Maine
#11, Kentucky
John Flavell
#12, North Dakota
Sterling Breuer
#13, Virginia
WAYNE SCARBERRY
#14, South Dakota
DOUG DREYER
#15, Vermont
#16, Arizona
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#17, Maryland
Pablo Martinez Monsivais
#18, Idaho
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#19, Louisiana
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#20, Iowa
21. Wyoming
#22, Missouri
Kelley McCall
#23, Michigan
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#24, Kansas
Charlie Riedel
#25, Indiana
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#26, Tennessee
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#27, Florida
#28, Oregon
#29, Oklahoma
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#30, Utah
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#31, Georgia
#32, Pennsylvania
#33, New Hampshire
#34, Wisconsin
#35, North Carolina
Matej Krajcovic
#36, Nevada
CATHLEEN ALLISON
#37, Washington
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#38, California
#39, Massachusetts
#40, Ohio
#41, Texas
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#42, Arkansas
Henryk Sadura
#43, Colorado
#44, Rhode Island
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#45, Nebraska
Bill Wolf
#46, New York
Daniel Barry
#47, Illinois
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#48, Connecticut
#49, New Jersey
#50, Minnesota
Erin Westover
