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re: Which US State Is the Biggest Federal Mooch?
Posted on 5/21/17 at 12:41 pm to cajunangelle
Posted on 5/21/17 at 12:41 pm to cajunangelle
That's a weird graph. That South Dakota and Montana are so high and North Dakota and Kansas are so low makes me think that there is something going on with the numbers that is not obvious to a first glance. Ditto the difference between Washington and Oregon and Georgia and South Carolina.
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Posted on 5/21/17 at 1:42 pm to AbuTheMonkey
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That's a weird graph. That South Dakota and Montana are so high and North Dakota and Kansas are so low makes me think that there is something going on with the numbers that is not obvious to a first glance. Ditto the difference between Washington and Oregon and Georgia and South Carolina.
Read the Notes: included with the graph. I can't speak for the other states but they are excluding a lot of revenue that is germane to Georgia. Bottom line: the combination of state economy and/or indigent population explains the situation.
Posted on 5/21/17 at 1:47 pm to AbuTheMonkey
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Ditto the difference between Washington and Oregon
Oregon doesn't have a sales tax. Probably get a lot of people coming in from Cali and Washington to shop, and they get no revenue from it so they need funds from DC.
It means more retail jobs but retail jobs suck.
Posted on 5/21/17 at 3:24 pm to AbuTheMonkey
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Ditto the difference between Washington and Oregon
As far as Washington and Oregon, I do know that the Seattle metro is a much stronger economic engine than Portland. Seattle has Amazon, Microsoft, Boeing, Starbucks, Costco and two top ten container ports. Not that familiar with Portland, so if I'm off base someone correct me.
Business Insider ranks Oregon as the number 13 "best" economy in the US and Washington #1.
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This post was edited on 5/21/17 at 4:00 pm
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