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I've seen the statistic over and over again, how much more money Wyoming received PER CAPITA than California. It seems that no one, especially journalists, have ever heard of the concept of economies of scale.
$61 per capita is roughly $30 million for Wyoming. That's right. 30 million. $14 per capita for California is roughly 480 million.
The linked article goes on to be even more disgusted that Wyoming hasn't spent more of its own money on homeland security...money that earlier in the article, the same journalists were saying was unnecessary, because who would attack a few cows?
There is some base level of money that is needed, just to make sure that emergency responders can talk to each other. Is that amount 30 million? Probably not, but it is still higher per capita at a population of half a million than a population of 34 million. If CA had gotten every penny of Wyoming's allocated money, that would not have increased their expenditure even a full dollar per capita.
