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As someone who relocated to Tn. I have to agree.
Low cost of living does not a utopia make.
I don't miss the congestion, the bumper-to-bumper traffic and long hours on the freeway inching along at a snails pace, or living where my neighbor can hear what's going on in my bathroom (seriously, we used to hear our neighbor yell, "Jeff! You left the toilet seat up! I almost fell in!" True story).
We live in the country now on almost 11 acres. We have a big garden and lots of space. The house isn't much, but I would never go back to San Diego. Yes, we have to put up with winter. But when spring comes, it's a worth it!
Think for yourself, what is killing people? The two major causes of death in the United States, are cancer and heart disease. But if you look at the cancer survival rates in America, for almost every type of cancer, they are much higher than in Europe.
The argument made by leftists, is that hundreds of thousands of people die every year because we don't have adequate early-cancer screening. But then why are American cancer survival rates higher than countries with socialized medicine?
As for heart disease, that is mainly because Americans are a bunch of fatties who eat bad food. If we ate more like the Japanese, our obesity rate would be more like theirs, and our life-expectancy would be higher.
Most of the people who don't have healthcare, are people who don't find it important. The reason they had to create a "healthcare mandate", was because the vast-majority of the people who were uninsured, wouldn't voluntarily buy health-insurance, even if it was cheap.
And a significant portion of the uninsured, are young people, especially young men. Which is why Obama and company had to lobby so hard to get the young to sign up for Obamacare.
The truth is, if you're a man, in 95% of cases, you could go from age 15 to 50, requiring nothing more than antibiotics. And a scrip of generic antibiotics at Walmart is like $8. The problem is, people often spend hundreds going to the emergency room to get the prescription.
For young women, the main issue seems to be urinary-tract infections, and pregnancy. Part of the urinary-tract infection problem, is because they don't drink any water. Every time my sister gets one, the doctor yells at her about drinking water, and she never learns, she likes the soda too much.
As for pregnancy, there is medicaid. Though I do think that far too much money is spent on pregnancy than is necessary, but everyone freaks out when it comes to kids.
That survival rates are really not a good indicator. Here is a good look at the reality.
So does your analogy explain Texas' recent prosperity too?
Texas doesn't have an income tax... We have done it just the opposite of California's experiment. Free Markets, made off VAT, when someone uses it when they need it.
The wealthy can afford it an the poor cannot afford to move, so they become the slaves of the state, the 2 class society.
The middle class and small business bails, to Texas.
But nice try.
I thinks it's because Califonia gets lucky with very sucsesfull people, and companies. Apple, Tesla, Cheveron ETC.
Major Tax breaks keep them there and the shareholders happy, that small business wanting to compete, do not get.... A wink and a nod, keeps the competition away, via, government approved Monopolies and cartels, that fix prices.
I'm a middle to the right of the road individual. And I really don't understand why California is prospering. Especially with all the left's imposed taxes and regulations. I just don't get it. Though I must admit I have to give credit where credit is due.
$2,460,000 million in 2015 for California,or $2,448,467 from other source. Either is higher than France
IMF DATA for countries in 2015
#3 Japan $4,123,258
#4 Germany $3,357,614
#5 United Kingdom $2,849,345
#6 France $2,421,560
#7 India $2,090,706
California $2,448,467
Texas $1,639,375
New York $1,455,568
Florida $893,189
Population estimate, July 1, 2015
California 39,144,818
Texas 27,469,114
Florida 20,271,272
New York 19,795,791
But if you combine the numbers and get Gross State Product per person it is telling. California is still well below New York, and while it is ahead of Texas, the Economic growth in Texas is considerably higher than California
$73,529 New York
$62,549 California
$59,681 Texas
$44,062 Florida
Bottom line is that California simply has a lot of people. It is far too many to be in one state.
Texas doesn't have an income tax... We have done it just the opposite of California's experiment. Free Markets, made off VAT, when someone uses it when they need it.
The wealthy can afford it an the poor cannot afford to move, so they become the slaves of the state, the 2 class society.
The middle class and small business bails, to Texas.
But nice try.
In the real measure...total taxes paid by the average resident CA is #45. But TX is #20. So less than but not by a large margin. Perhaps 15% less. Hardly enough to shake the world. NY for instance is 15% more than CA.
In the real measure...total taxes paid by the average resident CA is #45. But TX is #20. So less than but not by a large margin. Perhaps 15% less. Hardly enough to shake the world. NY for instance is 15% more than CA.
Don't forget incentives, and economic freedom factors, determining the final outcome and numbers place in the books.
Many reasons, both California and NY lost US house representation in congress, to Texas.
Well, I disagree with basically your entire premise, because you are looking for correlation without trying to understand causation. Or you are making up causation to fit your narrative.
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The disparities in life-expectancy are not the result of socio-economic conditions, the differences are mainly the byproduct of lifestyles, culture, and crime rates.
For instance, the reason America's life-expectancy rate is lower than in Europe, is for primarily two reasons. We have a higher murder rate, and far more automobile-related deaths per-capita.
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Redshadowz,
Let's try to keep the discussion to these United States of America. Also, let's focus on those stats that seem to suggest that (white) people in Conservative states seem to live considerably less than (white) people in Liberal states.
So you are suggesting that murder rate and car accident rate may be to blame. A little research does suggest that the 13 lowest life expectancy states, all Conservative except for one, have higher rates of both. It may be an intriguing question why people there murder or get into crashes more, but let us stay focused. Here we can find the leading causes of death in the United States:
Accidents (all, not just car) are at 140,000/year. Compare that to heart disease, cancer (at 600,000 / year each) and respiratory disease 150,000).. Now of those 140,000 deaths from accidents, about 32,000 are vehicular accidents and about 16,000 are homicides ( FastStats - Homicide and Fatality Facts). So the two causes of death you listed combined are responsible for 48,000 deaths compared to 1,350,000 from the top 3 natural causes on the list.
Clearly, murder and car accidents do not explain the discrepancy between "red and "blue" states (or the US and other developed countries if we want to go there). In plain English, people are just considerably sicker in the more Conservative places. That is why they die younger.
Once again, I am only pointing at publicly known facts. Cause and effect is hard to establish so I am not trying to do that.
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