The graphic represents people who live in Manhattan who also collect farm subsidies. The big red dots are folks who collect more than $250,000 per year.
I wonder what the graphic for Maryland would look like?
West Byrdland Virginny?.........How on earth can that be?......................
I knew it was Maryland. It’s all the government money.
There is big business also. Like the Discovery/Travel Channels.
Does this take into account cost-of-living?
$300K in Texas or Alabama can get you a palatial estate ... in Manhattan it can get you an apartment about the only slightly smaller than my first apartment.
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Maryland is filled with vast numbers of lazy, incompetent government workers racking in mega-bucks.
YOUR stolen mega-bucks. (mostly federal “workers”)
Surprised to see Hawaii and Alaska in the top ten.
consider the source. cnn is involved with this survey
What Hollywood and many outsiders think of Mississippi, I think of the Delta. You go there and it's like going back 40 years. The casinos in Tunica and the 4-laning projects have improved it (formerly, it was like going back 70 years), the Delta has to be home to some of the poorest, most ig'nant people I've ever come across.
Damn dakine. You move into Md. and all of a sudden we’re #1.
You must make a lot.
Misssissippi is also the most generous:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-11-20-national-giving_x.htm
The graphic represents people who live in Manhattan who also collect farm subsidies. The big red dots are folks who collect more than $250,000 per year.
I wonder what the graphic for Maryland would look like?
It would have killed CNN to actually run the above as the real lead story. CNN: Texas = Bush = Hitler + Satan!
Its interesting that almost all of the “rich” states are blue states, while the poorer ones are mostly red states....
Poor NJ!
Sorry, I’m not buying it. I have lived in both Kentucky and Maine, there is no way that the state of Kentucky came out lower than Maine. The report is a crock of ted kennedy blather!
For all the liberals’ whining about capitalism’s inequities and the wisdom of government redistribution, it sure is telling that the richest state is the one where those doing the redistributing live and the poorest is supposed to be that money is going.
Maryland is probably home to more top federal agency managers and executives, more federal agency consultants and more very-well-paid K-street lobbyists than any other part of the country. I think this would be born out if the data was arranged by zip-code and one could see the zip-codes in Maryland (and their proximity to D.C.) that have the highest incomes, that raise the Maryland statewide average. I doubt if the average income in Baltimore is a great contributor to the high statewide ranking for Maryland.
Since when is income considered wealth and used for comparison thereof?
As defined how?
This is the People’s Republic after all.
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Not the most accurate way to measure "wealth". Take a place like Beverly Hills, which is full of filthy rich Iranians (they even print the ballots in Farsi these days) who don't really have a reported income.