thats what happens if your state depends on TOURISM, and mostly farm work, and retirees that dont pay taxes.
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Alaska’s high rating could very well have something to do with the Permanent Dividend Fund that every resident receives.
But honestly, this ranking does feel like just another way to keep the masses arguing amongst themselves over which political ideology or state is right; rather than focusing efforts on the ones at the very top sucking up all the wealth from the rest of us.
According to google, Alaska residents get about $1700 a year per person. That's not nothing, but it's hardly enough to guarantee financial solvency. It's probably not even enough to offset the higher cost of living there.
If you have ever been low income, $1700 is enough to get your attention. You know where that money comes from and when you are low income, a sudden in flow of essentially an extra month and a half of salary for a rural person?
Well, you’re paying attention to that. So maybe have some perspective about what that kind of money means to a person who has a shitty truck and a barely adequate house and spends months in it through a long winter.
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Permanent Dividend Fund that every resident receives.
Sounds awful socialist to me.
Funded by oil. Looks socialist, actually more like a bribe to the voters to keep drilling
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Can we just break up the country already? Let the Jesusland states go wallow in their stupidity and let the rest of must continue on into the 21st century.
Fuck the red states.
Not everyone in these states are Republican. Check out the results for any major city on them.
That's why Texas Rs are hellbent on gerrymandering. Otherwise of it was fair and square they will lose.
Yup. There are good people in those states and we should help them leave. There is no good future in red states. We should let them wither and die or let them leave. They are a cancer.
i read an article even tech jobs are very reluctant to hire people from red states.
Missouri is about to have one of its metros cracked because heaven forbid this backwards assed state DARE to have a blue district.
Seems like it would end up as 3+ countries. You have like Cascadia + CO/NM (maybe AZ?) and New England + MN/WI/IL and then Magastan separating them. Hawaii could just mahalo on out of this bullshit. Maybe Alaska just says "fuck this, eh?"
I'm good with that.
Can those of us that are cool apply for adoption by blue states? I promise I'm literate!
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its called balkanization, the blue states form a coalition, and a new government, and the red ones can form one with RUSSIA, and SA.
Why would Florida having a high ranking for people falling behind on debt among all states be particularly problematic? I mean, someone's going to be #2.
And Alaska's on nearly at the other end of the scale, based on their ratings, and it's red.
Brown people! They came illegally, stole all the jobs, and now they've taken the economy too. Those black people probably need to go to rebalance thelosses. Maybe the white Christian holyland needs to purge the Jews and other non beleivers too? [predicting the MAGA playlist based upon world history]
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With the party of financial responsibility at the helm, of course.
Good and hopefully the decline continues in both red run deregulated Oblasts.
FUCK YEAH!!! SUCK IT, FLORIDA!!!!
We are number one! We are number one!
Don't messes with Texas, bitches!
-PEW! PEW!-
Whoops! Celebratory gunshot accidentally sent a celebratory bullet into a school. Eh, the kids are used to it
Jesus, guns, and beer will make it all better. Idiot state
Damn welfare queens the lot of them.
Hopefully some more drought for one and flooding for the other will thin the herd a bit in the coming months and years.