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Um... actually several billionaires, a couple dozen hundred millionaires, and dozens of millionaires will skew the income gap. That's not even counting the thousands making six figures.
Yes the per capita income is only $28,202 according to the census, actually lower than the entire state of Illinois.
Like I said, all those rich libs can't hide the fact that Chicago is poor, section 8, welfare liberal central.
What's the per capita income of your rural republican strongholds? Guess they are poor, section 8, welfare RWNJ central huh?
The small, rural, Republican county I grew up in has a food stamp usage that's 1/3 of the rate of cities like Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Brooklyn and half that of Boston, Chicago and Portland.
How much does it cost to live comfortably in the middle of urban Chicago?
How much does it cost to live comfortably in rural Illinois?
Which area do you think is full of welfare recipients and section 8 projects?
Now go slap yourself for trying to be smart.
My point was a simple one, which you failed to grasp. Rural areas, which are republican mostly, are not immune to the very same things you describe in Chicago. Look up per capita income by county, and you will find mostly red ones at the bottom. It might be cheaper, but 18k ain't much anywhere, even in craphole Mississippi. I grew up in a small rural area in Alabama, and while our poverty level may not have been that of Chicago, the area was very very poor. Maybe being able to afford a double wide and a heavy use pickup is enough for you, but for most it isn't. I'll take 30k in a mid size city before I take 20 k in a rural cesspool any day. Oh and fyi, the difference in welfare is simple, the rural people are less likely to take it even if they need it. Numbers can lie, and by experience I know many people who need it but don't get it because they would just move back in with family, borrow money from family, or because it was a small town, get rid of their car and bike/walk/get friends to take them places. Not everyone has that luxury.
Don't think I'm saying that all welfare recipients need it, but the categorization that they are all worthless and lazy is just stupid. Some are, but not all.
No one is moving any goal post. I'm simply pointing out the hypocrisy of someone claiming Chicago is full of billionaires and millionaires. Yeah, it's also full of really poor people and they outnumber the rich people by 10,000 to 1.
My point was a simple one, which you failed to grasp. Rural areas, which are republican mostly, are not immune to the very same things you describe in Chicago. Look up per capita income by county, and you will find mostly red ones at the bottom. It might be cheaper, but 18k ain't much anywhere, even in craphole Mississippi. I grew up in a small rural area in Alabama, and while our poverty level may not have been that of Chicago, the area was very very poor. Maybe being able to afford a double wide and a heavy use pickup is enough for you, but for most it isn't. I'll take 30k in a mid size city before I take 20 k in a rural cesspool any day. Oh and fyi, the difference in welfare is simple, the rural people are less likely to take it even if they need it. Numbers can lie, and by experience I know many people who need it but don't get it because they would just move back in with family, borrow money from family, or because it was a small town, get rid of their car and bike/walk/get friends to take them places. Not everyone has that luxury.
Don't think I'm saying that all welfare recipients need it, but the categorization that they are all worthless and lazy is just stupid. Some are, but not all.
I don't see rural areas full of section 8 thug gang bangers with no jobs, and on welfare. That's typical of the liberal inner city though.
Because there are more rich people in blue States? That makes the gap wider.
Why aren't Democrats doing something to narrow the gap? Why aren't they redistributing the wealth of those extremely wide income gap Democrat-run cities and states?
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