Posted on 10/11/2018 8:06:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
All a government has to do is give the people freedom to use their money as they see fit and they would be on top again.
No state is really in sound fiscal shape. At least not as you’d define that in private business or for your family.
Makes no difference. We all learned in 2008 that if you go to Congress with a sufficiently butt-puckering Chicken Little tale of impending doom you WILL get a bailout.
You mean the state (ie all of them) that hires far too many bureaucrats, pays them entirely too much and keeps them on salary and benefits until a ripe old age?
FLORIDA! #4!...................
And if the polls are correct and Florida elects a socialist governor, the fall will be spectacular.
“You mean the state (ie all of them) that hires far too many bureaucrats, pays them entirely too much and keeps them on salary and benefits until a ripe old age?”
I recall back home, people who could not find gainful employment often took a civil service exam and got a make-work government job typing or filing. Automatic promotions ensue, and soon you have incapable people promoted to managers or supervisors. You can’t fire them because of the obscene public sector union, so we end up in a true kakistocracy.
We're doomed. I've told my wife that when the people with money start to flee, they will put a tax on home sales so that if you do try to get out you will lose all the value in your home. Wait for it. She think I'm probably right but she still won't move.
With the exception of Oklahoma the top five are states without an income tax.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence
Of course we’re not. Saw someplace in the past couple of days that UNR medical center is offering minor care to poor folks and people who “don’t have any ID” or “SS number”. Surely they aren’t using tax dollars to treat “undocs” are they? Grrrrrr! Anyone got and ICE hat and windbreaker I could borrow? You know, just to stand outside. I anyone were to ask just tell them I’m just a good samaratin there ‘I’n ‘C’ase of ‘E’mergency.
My grandfather ran a county government department for 35 years. He ended up tearing out what was left of his hair. He had to staff it with a bunch of people who likely couldn’t hold a job anyplace else in America.
“Here, this is Ward Chairman So-And-So’s drunken brother-in-law. He works for you now.”
Nebraska has a balanced budget requirement and a one-body Unicameral legislature that gets the job done at half the cost and far less time than any other state. I’d challenge most private businesses or families to do as well.
well we just gave away billions so our loco teachers can get a 16% raise and now they’re talking income tax here in Washington....
Friends are moving back to IL to be near 8 grandkids. They are getting a 4500 sq ft house for 250k but the taxes are 10k per year. The taxes can only go up. The house was on the market 600 days.
Family connections kill you if you try to leave the Garbage State.
NJ should be investigated under the RICO statute.
Who cares. Someone else is responsible, not me. BTW, the rich don’t pay their fair share. /sarc
Just wait until Governor Gillum takes Florida to #49 and competing with Illinois for #50. God help us.
Here in Arkansas we are probably in much better shape than most. The state cannot by law issue any Debt except under very narrow circumstances and then only if it passes a popular vote. In addition by Law we have to have a balanced budget no matter what. If Tax revenues come in less than anticipated every state Department must automatically reduce their expenditures to stay in budget.
Now of other states and the federal government had to do what our state does we would have a lot less problems.
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