RE: Anyone notice Blue states tend to me more fiscally responsible?
February 25, 2017 at 2:10 pm
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2017 at 2:56 pm by Lek.)
(February 25, 2017 at 11:19 am)Opoponax Wrote: This is one of those facts that send the conservative cockroaches scurrying to the insult bag. When presented with the fact that Commie-fornia utterly kicks the shit out of every red state in the union in terms of wealth, suddenly we're communists. When the flood happened last week and the week before, red state rubes were expressing glee over it.
God, I wish secession was a realistic possibility. It isn't, but it's nice to fantasize about California, Oregon, and Washington just bailing the fuck out and leaving that giant swath of red dirt and rocks to its own ignorant devices.
California indeed has a high rate of well off people. It also has one of the highest income gaps between the rich and the poor in the nation; one of he key issues of the Democrat party. The poverty rate in California is the 17th highest in the nation.
The income gap in the blue state of New York is the highest in the nation and the poverty rate is 19th highest.
Additionally, I reviewed the statistics in the OP's reference and fail to see how the statistics show that blue states are more fiscally responsible. What are the statistics that bear this out?
I also just checked and California had the 11th highest unemployment rate in the nation as of December 2016.
