“In 2017, Kentucky received $40 billion more from the federal government than it paid in taxes. That’s about one-fifth of the state’s G.D.P.; if Kentucky were a country, we’d say that it was receiving foreign aid on an almost inconceivable scale.”https://t.co/EUULmuRu1E

— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) July 2, 2019