Chart Of The Day

In response to Sarah Palin's new found fiscal conservatism, Conor Clarke made a graph:

Whatever else might be said about Sarah Palin, I hope we can all agree that there's absolutely no reason to take her seriously as a fiscal conservative. In particular, that line about "industrious Americans" succeeded and failing of their own accord made me want to take a look at the federal dollars Alaska receives per resident relative to its federal tax burden.