North Dakota, Wyoming, and Texas dominate when it comes to GDP growth
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North Dakota's growth has been pretty much attributed to the oil boom. And as you know, booms eventually go bust. Has little to do with liberal vs. conservative policies.
And interestingly enough, Kansas, which is known for Brownback's supply side policies, is certainly lagging in growth. Chalk that up to conservative policies!
Of course the real story is simply tax rates are one of MANY factors. If tax was the only or even majority factor, NYC would have a population of 8 and a zero econonomy and Kansas would be a huge state with the highest growth. No CO and NM which went Hillary are also the highest growth color
Many people in North Dakota and Wyoming likely think 3 or 4 months of bitter cold is a small price to pay not to live in inner-city filth and to have extremely well-run government that big spends bigger than most blue states but taxes very little.
I guess because of the cold weather and few people moving in but with all those natural resources and agriculture they get stable communities, very low crime, labor shortages with high-wages for service workers, low wait times in hospitals, single-digit minute commute times for many, excellent schools and universities with very small classroom sizes.
Your absolutely right they always, always have low unemployment rates. It has been that way since they collect the data.
I am sure North Dakotans prefer labor shortages as opposed to competing with millions of illegal aliens for jobs.
Dude. My nephew drives trucks ND to OH I see the videos from his dashcam. ND makes OH look like a tropical paradise.
You seem to have overlooked the poor performance of red states Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas.
Not to mention that the blue states of Colorado and Michigan are in the top echelon.
Cons see only what they want to see.
But overall, the red states are killin it with the election of the Great Orange King. Michigan voted for Trump and they are benefitting tremendously in GDP growth....make Michigan Great Again (MMGM)...since we elected Trump, I bought 2 American cars for the first time in decades and they're awesome.
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