so, there is a lot of incoming and outgoing here. and this is the only safe place for the people left in this t town. inside, it is dark. mostly the elderly live here, without electricity or running water. there are so few comforts, they have to grind their own meat. among the youngest. she sent her children away to live with relatives months ago, but still can t bring herself to go. people here need my help, she says, and they can t leave, so that s why i say. whoever can pitches in. anything for some normalcy. but so little about this place is normal. s be 25 moved in a year ago after his home was destroyed. you built a small community here. how important is it for all of you to be here together? all we can do is hold onto each other, he says.
think well, what other chart do you have any other charts we can move along to here? yeah, i have one that breaks it town and shows you how that works and why it happens that way. so this chart takes the united states in the center, then the two states on the left that get the best deal, the two states on the right with the worst deal. what you can see is the main driver of that are tax revenues. if a state is poorer, it ll pay less in federal taxes. you can see on the left, kentucky and mississippi, which on average pay 6600 and $5700 a year in taxes. on the right, you can see massachusetts and connecticut which pay far more, almost $15,000 in taxes to washington. they pay a lot more in taxes. then you look at the top of the chart, what do they get back? let s start with the green because it s the most interesting. the green is federal money that they get back for projects, infrastructure projects, military, so forth.