Any state that is being subsidized is being paid by the other states. The blue, high tax states are being paid by all other states.Democrats like to gloat about how red states are receive more "benefits" than blue states. They don't seem to get why people who are suffering would reject welfare state programs. They need to wake up.Democrats will continue to lose votes until they realize that they need to do more than point and laugh at people who don't agree with their plans for the country. They have to actually listen, and respond, to the concerns of rural, white voters.
It could be that if the economy picks up more in 2018 that some minority voters may shift from blue to red. It ain't like they've been all that well-served by the Dems.
I found it interesting that the blue states were being subsidized by federal deductions for their taxes. When I did I recalled exactly such bragging