I wish WV were getting her fair share of federal funds; maybe the state wouldn’t be such a hole.
Have fun keeping your electricity on 
(I’m not offended, just couldn’t resist)
Only problem is what constitutes “using” here. I suspect that places like Montana and Wyoming have high numbers because they have a lot of, say, interstate highway per capita. But we all use them, either directly (think Yellowstone) or indirectly (i.e., cross-country trucking shipments, etc.). No way I’d give up either Grand Teton or Glacier, even though Dick Cheney (my old congressman) is a Wyomingite.
I can’t think of any good reason to keep Nebraska, but I’m not one to rock the boat. Texas.
That would be North Dakota.
Connecticut.
I talk to my companies vendors from all over the county everyday, and by far the must obnoxious and stupid people seem to be in Connecticut. Even New Yorkers and Bostonians can afford to have manners from time to time. I’d also toss Rhode Island along with them. Come on not only is it the size of some walmart parking lots its not even a freaking island.
Montana gets back $1.60 for every $1.00 we pay the feds. It’s because we have payments to farmers and a low population in relation to the amount of federal dollars we receive in assistance (unemployment, social security, food stamps, etc.)
We’d be happy to secede, join Canada and charge you all at the border to enter.
whistlepig
For their overall lack of any positive contribution to the good of America I would lop off:[ol]
[li]Mississippi[/li][li]Alabama[/li][li]Georgia[/li][li]Texas[/li][li]Louisiana[/li][li]Georgia[/li][li]South Carolina[/li][li]North Carolina[/li][/ol]
After this maybe we could actually start making some meaningful accomplishments in this country.
The past 200 or so years haven’t done anything for you?
Heh.
Not for much longer I wont. My new house is nearly complete. It’s four miles over the border into New Hampshire. “Live Free or Die!” The only state slogan that should have a " - Motherfucker" at the end of it!
Florida, because all things evil seem to come out of or end up in Florida.
Big fan of the South, I see.
Bolding mine.
How are you going to lop Georgia off twice?
Let me know when they get that token / EZ Pass thing figured out, willya? I hope you enjoy paying your new real estate taxes, btw.
Oh, God, you’re not one of those “the South Will Rise Again” types, are you? Look, the Confederacy is dead! Get over it!
Hedley Lamarr: Qualifications?
Applicant: Rape, murder, arson, and rape.
Hedley Lamarr: You said rape twice.
Applicant: I like rape.
Perhaps he dislikes Soviet Georgia, too.
Perhaps he dislikes Soviet Georgia, too.
I was wondering why no one said Georgia. I second it. WTF are they providing to us nowadays?
If not them, then Alabama is my second choice.
I would suspect that it has more to do with the fact that Montana is a really poor state, thus people there pay few taxes. I also remember a report a few months back listing total payments to states from the Department of Homeland Security, where the Rocky Mountain States had the most spending per capita, with Wyoming leading the way. Because you just know that al Queda are planning their next hijacking in Shoshone.
How’d you know I lived here?!
I vote off Massachusetts.
That and Washington D.C. The more politicians removed, the better.
Seconded
or one of the Dakotas, we have a North and South Dakotas, how many Dakotas do we really need, at least one of them is redundant, same with the Virginias and Carolinas, do we really need “Backup” states? 
<Abe “Grampa” Simpson> Dear Mr. President, there are too many states nowadays, please eliminate three, i am NOT a crackpot