Florida gets about $3,000 more per resident each year from the federal government than it puts in, for over $60 billion each year
as governor, Rick Scott signed off on eights years of Florida budgets in which the state did not live purely based on Florida taxpayer money
Here’s a press release from about a year ago from Senator Scott’s office, bragging about how much federal disaster relief he got from Florida rickscott.senate.gov/sen-rick-scott… 
Here’s Scott as governor saying he’s asked President Trump for all the resources the federal government can provide for both recovery and restoration after Hurricane Irma nbcnews.com/news/weather/v…
“Individually these incidents may not have overwhelmed the ability of the State of FL to respond. Cumulatively, however, these emergencies significantly impacted the state’s capability to provide financial support,” Scott, as gov, wrote to Obama in 2015 after a series of storms
