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Why North Dakota May Be the Best State in the Country to Live In
Yahoo!Finance ^
| 03/31/2011
| Carla Fried
Posted on 04/03/2011 10:16:27 AM PDT by Silentgypsy
While many states are confronting severe budget shortfalls and dragging economies, North Dakota has a different sort of problem. It's stuck deciding how best to deal with a budget surplus. Yes, a surplus. North Dakota's balance sheet is so strong it recently reduced individual income taxes and property taxes by a combined $400 million, and is debating further cuts.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: budget; northdakota; surplus
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Happiness is a budget surplus.
To: Silentgypsy
Comment #3 Removed by Moderator
To: MinorityRepublican
For some reason that was left out of the equation.
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:19:28 AM PDT
by
MeSpikeLibs
(Wake me when the Obama nightmare is over.)
Comment #5 Removed by Moderator
To: Silentgypsy
Nothing between you and the North Pole but a barbed wire fence (and it’s been blown down)...
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:21:28 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 801 of our national holiday from reality. - It's 3 AM, where is the 'president'?)
To: Silentgypsy
This Texan and her family once lived for three and a half years in Williston ND. They were very happy years, in spite of the extreme cold. The people were so warm and friendly, that they made up for cold temps on the thermometer.
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:21:31 AM PDT
by
basil
(It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
To: Silentgypsy
HEY! CALIFORNIA!
There’s gold in North Dakota!
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:21:48 AM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(Beat me, Bite me...Make Me Write Bad Checks)
To: bt579
Gosh mister, that sounded racist the first time...
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:22:27 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 801 of our national holiday from reality. - It's 3 AM, where is the 'president'?)
To: bigheadfred
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:23:14 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 801 of our national holiday from reality. - It's 3 AM, where is the 'president'?)
To: Silentgypsy
Aren’t they drilling like crazy out there?
I’ve heard that you can’t rent a room hardly anywhere, due to all the oil workers living in them.
Is this actually the case?
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:23:23 AM PDT
by
digger48
To: Silentgypsy
I live on Maui and it is already climbing to 80 degrees for today. Match that to the temp in N.Dakota today and I say, the difference in taxes is not that important to me. Aloha
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:24:15 AM PDT
by
fish hawk
(R. Emmett Tyrrell: Liberalism is dead. What we see now is "soft Nazis-ism".)
To: MinorityRepublican
Yeh you can only go outside 3 mos out of the year. LOL! Just move to Alaska and get it over with.
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:26:15 AM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: null and void
SHHHH!!!
I don’t want them stopping in Idaho.
Next you’ll be telling them I misspelled beach...
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:26:16 AM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(Beat me, Bite me...Make Me Write Bad Checks)
To: MinorityRepublican
It isn’t always too fracking cold in ND. In the summer it is often too fracking hot.
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:27:19 AM PDT
by
magslinger
(What Would Stephen Decatur Do?)
To: null and void; bt579
Gosh mister, that sounded racist the first time...Yeah, but he IS Eric Holder. So it's all good.
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:29:28 AM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(Beat me, Bite me...Make Me Write Bad Checks)
To: Silentgypsy
While many states are confronting severe budget shortfalls and dragging economies, North Dakota has a different sort of problem. It's stuck deciding how best to deal with a budget surplus. Yes, a surplus. North Dakota's balance sheet is so strong it recently reduced individual income taxes and property taxes by a combined $400 million, and is debating further cuts. Yeah, but, do you know where that place is?
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:31:04 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: Silentgypsy
Q: Why is it so windy in Eastern Montana?
A: Because North Dakota sucks.
Old rivalry.
Drill NoDaks! Drill!
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posted on
04/03/2011 10:31:32 AM PDT
by
Leo Farnsworth
(I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.)
To: Silentgypsy
I read this last night and checked out craigslist for both ND and Bismarck, almost no jobs. It’s a joke.
To: MinorityRepublican
RE: Too fracking cold.
The reaon why people still opt to STAY in California even with the huge budget deficit, huge state debt, higher taxes, and an intractable immigration problem is this -— GOD GIVEN WEATHER.
People will tolerate lots of disadvantages for this one factor.
In fact, other than Hawaii, I can’t find any other state in this country with the natural weather advantage that California affords.
Unless the Dakota man-made advantage far outweighs the man-made problems of California, I don’t see how Dakota’s natural weather disadvantage can encourage people to migrate to their part of the world.
EDIT TO ADD : Maybe a Japan-like earthquake or two would change people’s minds ( God forbid )
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