This is true.

However it's important to add that state income taxes are deductible on your federal return. While this doesn't entirely offset the imbalance, it does mean that the federal government indirectly subsidizes states with high tax rates (often wealthy+coastal+more to the left politically) in a proportional way.

I'm actually glad that in the US this isn't a charged political issue. My family comes from a place where half the country (by region) hates the other half in part because of this kind of tax redistribution. It's not a pretty way to run a country.