An electronic billboard went up in 2009 to lists the amount of federal taxes paid by D.C. residents while not having a vote in the U.S. Congress. (Photo by Keith Ivey)

Infuriating tally of the day: D.C. residents paid the federal government $26.4 billion in taxes in 2014, while receiving $3.5 billion in return (not including matching funds that all states receive), without full Congressional representation.

Those figures come via the Office of Revenue Analysis’ District, Measured blog, which looked at Internal Revenue Service data to determine that D.C. likely hit a new record in federal tax contributions last year.

The IRS started tracking D.C.’s taxes separately from Maryland in 2002. Since then the District’s annual federal taxes increased by 80 percent, according to the blog (the population also grew by nearly 100,000 people). And of course, the obligatory note: D.C. has surpassed both Wyoming and Vermont in terms of population.

But the District’s federal contribution amounted to more than 22 other states (as well as Puerto Rico and international tax contributions).

(Courtesy of District, Measured)

Which really demolishes all those arguments about D.C. being dependent on the federal government. But then, as John Kasich recently reminded us, there’s really one thing standing in the way of statehood, and its all those damn Democrats.