By Bethany Blankley, includes “The argument that some Democratic ‘blue states’ should receive more federal bailout money than Republican ‘red states’ because their residents pay more in federal taxes isn’t really a comparison of apples to apples, economists and analysts note. … How well a state government manages the money it has, regardless of where its revenue comes from, is not dependent upon how much taxpayers pay the federal government, other analysts argue, as states’ failed fiscal policies have been going on for decades. …”