The PorkBusters website contains a lot of helpful info on wasteful spending by the Federal government, and one of their pages breaks the taxpayer-funded lard down by state.
We’ve all read about the “bridge to nowhere in Alaska”, but there are 8 states ahead of them in wasteful Federal spending.
Here’s the breakdown, including names and party affiliations of their Senators, the latter included as a 911 for Libertarian government:
$848,500,000 Alaska (Stevens(R),Murkowski(R))
$1,037,275,002 Kansas (Brownback(R),Roberts(R))
$1,070,441,264 New York (Schumer(D),Clinton(D))
$1,772,299,750 California (Feinstein(D),Boxer(D))
$2,236,043,647 Georgia (Chambliss(R),Isakson(R))
$2,355,823,672 Missouri (Bond(R),Talent(R))
$2,450,554,485 Texas (Huchinson(R),Cornyn(R))
$2,782,919,295 Illinois (Durbin(D),Obama(D))
and the winner is:
$2,832,818,647 North Carolina (Dole(R),Burr(R))