4th most socialist state good example of more "equal income distribution"

It's more clear why Thad Cochran beat Chris McDaniel now.

Mississippi loves them some government goodies.

The GOP apparently gets the Mississippi vote based on the social conservative side of the party and less on fiscal conservative side.

You know the answer. Just because you are obese...doesn't mean you have to be obtuse.

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In order to measure the degree to which different states reflect socialist principles, we determined state expenditures and state GDP as the best indicators because socialist states tax and spend a higher percentage of their GDP.

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Nobel Prize worthy.

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Or this.



There's racism, and then there's the mere statement of fact.

Illinois is 10th on the least socialist list.

shows however they are doing whatever it is they are doing it's liberal academic horse shite

Using spending as a percentage of GDP is a flawed way to determine how socialist a state is. It will make rural red states look more socialist because states like Alaska and Wyoming are large in land size and sparsely populated...it costs more to maintain Gov't services and infrastructure and there is a small tax base to draw from and very little in terms of manufacturing and business.

States like New York that aren't as large in size but have huge populations have a large tax base and tons of established manufacturing so therefore spending as a percentage of GDP would be lower.

You can't paint with a broad brush on these issues, you have to look at each states' particular situation, policies, and demographics. Mississippi is largely due to an agricultural economy with a large portion of poor minorities. Wyoming has a small tax base and a lot of land to maintain. West Virginia was centered around coal and federal regulation has killed that industry.

A lot of times, there are outside factors at play and you could make an argument that the states would be in worse shape under democrat control. It is in no way an indicator that conservatives of those states are hypocrites, though I will admit in Mississippis case a lot of them are hypocrites. States like Wyoming and Alaska though are not..

MS has lots of blacks and southern democrats. It's not more socialist or liberal than Vermont, Connecticut, Mass, California, or Oregon.

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Government services aren't socialism in Alaska.

Got it.

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Let me try to explain this to you.

You have State A which is twice the size of State B. State A and B both have to maintain highways and state troopers, state parks, etc. State A has half the population of State B even though it is twice the size of State B.

Common sense would tell you that maintaining the basic services of State A would take a larger percentage of GDP than State B due to a smaller tax base and more land to maintain roads and such on.

It's a flawed statistic because all Government spending is not Socialist. Gov't has a role in certain areas. Wealth redistribution is socialist. If you were to look at what percentage of State's populations receive Gov't entitlements the list would be entirely different.

Here, let's try looking at the 11 states that have more people on welfare than working.

Oops. Right you are, for once. I can't open the link, so when I read your typically limp little post, I thought you were making the same tired welfare recipient argument.

My bad. I'll let the others continue destroying the dishonest formula for making this list. Good luck. As always, you're gonna need it.