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Blue states do not subsidize red states. That is a completely incorrect statement...and why the author uses the word "essentially".
But here is the biggest reality of such. What frequency is implied? Show me a chart or statistics for the past 50 years regarding federal aid to states. All I have seen is statistics within the last 4 years.
Here's a bit from the CB of statistics from 2006:
https://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/fas-06.pdf
Notice New York and Vermont ... notice how the sample you supplied via the art is flawed via the frequency. Also note how things changed excluding Ole Miss...and Bama..et al