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Looking to get a good return on the tax dollars you've "invested" with Uncle Sam? Try heading for the Dakotas. South Dakota taxpayers get back $1.53 for every dollar they send to Washington, the Sioux Falls, S.D. Argus-Leader reports. And North Dakota resident do even better, getting back $1.68. Census Bureau figures show that in fiscal 2005, South Dakota received $7.4 billion in direct expenditures or obligations from the federal government, up from $3.8 billion a decade earlier.