The Best- and Worst-Run States in America

24/7 Wall St. via Yahoo! News ^ | 11/27/12 | Michael B. Sauter, Alexander E. M. Hess, Samuel Weigley and Ashley C. Allen

[Slings and Arrows]

How well run are America’s 50 states? The answer depends a lot on where you live.

Every year, 24/7 Wall St. conducts an extensive survey of all fifty states in America. Based on a review of data on financial health, standard of living and government services by state we determine how well each state is managed. For the first time, North Dakota is the best run. California is the worst run for the second year in a row.

[Fledermaus]

TX is okay but 8) sent Kay Bailey Moron Hutchinson to the US Senate.

But I can’t talk...the idiots I live with in TN sent Lamar! Alexander and Bob Porker Corker.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

You complain about Kay Bailey to me!!!!!!!!!!

Look with what I’m stuck with——Boxer and Feinstein in there fore decades!!!!!!! Throw in for good measure Nancy Pelousy and Maxine Waters.

PLEASE DO NOT COMPLAIN TO ME!!!!!!!!

[jessduntno]

You forgot about My Favorite Martian - Henry Waxman.

[Fledermaus]

I feel your pain.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

I’d give my left nut to have Kay Bailey here in CA.

My mayor is Don Juan Villaassahola

My congressman is Xavier Becerra

My governor is Moonbeam

My senators are Boxer and Feinstein.

PLEASE send Kay baby——I’ll take her!!!!!!!

[SoldierDad]

Wooohooo! We're number 50; were number 50!!!

And, we (CA) have passed a bill that will increase taxes on the wealthy ($250,000 and up) as well as an increase in the state's sales tax! Wooohooo! Soon we'll be number 57!

My state is run by a bunch of complete dumb@sses.

[onyx]

I think Iowa is blue, in presidential elections for sure!

[wac3rd]

I too, live in the formerly great State of California.

My wife is a native Californian, but last night, after nearly 40 years in the Golden State, agreed that if we found a compabable place in another state (OR, CO, UT or VA), she would be open to moving.

Prop. 30’s passage means that the top 10% now pay 80% of the State’s taxes. Funny, those fat union pensions are just under the threshold typically and are not subject to the millionaire’s tax that starts at $250K.

Sacramento is as dysfunctional as the LA or Berkeley City counsels. Libtards on full display with failure in their wake. I want OUT.

[Slings and Arrows]

I’m an escapee from Illinois. I know whereof you speak.

[Slings and Arrows]

Agreed re Iowa, and FWIW I think Arizona is formerly red, but currently reddish-purple due to the snowbirds and reconquistadores.

[eyedigress]

Free Money NOT to grow crops has its benefits. Iowa has been in the cookie jar for many years.

[Gay State Conservative]

My wife is a native Californian, but last night, after nearly 40 years in the Golden State, agreed that if we found a comparable place in another state (OR, CO, UT or VA)...

Good God...can't speak for the other states but avoid VA like the plague.Go to NC instead...not *nearly* as filthy (politically/socially).

[ExCTCitizen]

Best:

1. North Dakota

2. Wyoming

3. Nebraska

4. Utah

5. Iowa

All of those states are great places to live!!

50. California

Why ain't I surprised??

49. Rhode Island

I'm Surprised!! I mean it is a blue state, but I thought it would be Mass.

48. Illinois

I'm Shocked!!! /s (I thought it would be #49!!)

47. Arizona

Shocked!!

46. New Jersey

Not New York??

I wonder where CT is on the list??

[Terry Mross]

Don’t be surprised if obama uses his magic pen to make fracking illegal. North Dakota will be closed for business.

[KC_Lion]

What did he say about Punish your enemies? or get in their faces?

The fact is he has pitted 26 states aginst the other 24.

[palmer]

I sure as hell don't know why the Republicans insist on start their primary in a Blue State

Ask Mitt.

[wac3rd]

I grew up in VA. Rural. Not NoVA.

[3Fingas]

We are not red! They are red. Red is for commies. People, we have to stop accepting how they define us. Since, Red is their true color and reveals far too much about the liberal agenda, the leftist Svengalis did a jedi mind trick getting us to accept the label of red. It is dumb for us to deny political history and accept this redefinition. We are true blue and always have been.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsDe-8cOSYY

We are not red! I will reject their made-up reality and substitute the actual reality.

[Ron C.]

Well, I'm moving from the worst (CA) to the 4th worst (AZ.)

But, it's simple as to why AZ is where it is financially...

Dimcrats moving to AZ to escape high taxation that they created in CA - continue voting Dims into office in there!

I have one tiny bit of respite in Prescott Valley, AZ - it's among the last conservative redoubts left in AZ. BUT, it's changing faster with more stupid Dims moving in every day!

[pepsionice]

Having lived in AZ...I can offer these observations.

There’s really no major industry in the state. They have some agriculture, but it’s nothing to brag about. The military presence in the state helps. So they live mostly off tourism and the old folks who run down at snow-birds.

Outside of Flagstaff, Tucson, and Phoenix...you can generally live off $25k a year easily in the state.

As for wealthy folks living in AZ? It’s nice to visit but there’s not a big segment of wealth in AZ.