Anyone notice Blue states tend to me more fiscally responsible?

[TaraJo]

You're a bit off topic. The conversation is/was about states. 

Do you have a comment on how blue states are fiscally more responsible than red? 

Fair enough.

All that government spending, I don't like to think of it all as spending; I prefer to think of it as investing.  The difference is, investing pays off in the long run.  I posted an article about it a while back in this forum.  The state of Utah had a new solution to homelessness: give apartments to the homeless.  Sure enough, homelessness is basically gone from the state and the state is spending less on this housing program than it spent dealing with the homeless.  They actually saved money here.  Saving money is fiscal responsibility.

And that isn't really the only way these investments pay off.  Investing in schools pay off with a better educated population and a better trained workforce.  Investing in roads makes transportation easier.  Investments in police and firefighters give us safer communities.  And, let's face it, poverty turns into crime, so investing in poverty reduction efforts also pays off in that we have less crime.

On the other hand, look at how Republicans love to spend money.  They give tax incentives to billionaires, which they, in turn, dump into off-shore accounts, safely away from both our tax codes and the rest of our economy.  Or they spend their money making the kind of risky investments that crashed the economy in 2008.  I know, their economic ideology says that if you give "job creators" money, they'll use that money to create jobs.  The problem most businesses have isn't taxation; they just don't have the customers.  Build a middle class, build demand for the services and products that businesses sell and you'll do a much better at creating jobs than throwing money at CEO's.  

Cliff notes:  Republican investments don't work.  Democrat investments do.  Or did, but that's another issue.