Infographic: United States of Subsidies

These numbers are mind blowing. So much for the fuss the GOP made about Tesla or Solyndra during the campaign.

<a href="http://xkcd.com/1138/" rel="nofollow">http://xkcd.com/1138/</a> - the per-capita data is useful, but the overall map is a classic population heatmap.

80.4 billion dollars is something like 255 dollars per capita or 700 dollars per tax payer, or 0.6 percent of GDP or 0.5 percent of US total public debt or 0.06 percent of US total unfunded liabilities (too many zeros on my calculator - I don't trust these numbers myself).

I am not an American but I knew it be Texas that must be receiving a lion's share

I was not aware that Twitter had a $22 subsidy from the State of California. Hope that was a good investment.

I wonder if federal or statewide legislation could help, prohibiting negative-sum subsidy competitions between smaller jurisdictions.