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Why haven't Republican economic approaches fixed a state like Mississippi? The state is dominated by Republicans and yet it's always the poorest state. Why?
The same reason Democrats haven't fixed Detroit, Cleveland, Memphis, New Orleans, Jackson, Gary, St. Louis, Philly, Baltimore...
What is all the hub bub about here? Since they're happy, let's just leave them alone to live their lives.
The state is in good financial condition, and the residents are happy...nothing to see here.
The state gets $3 in federal taxes for every $1 its residents pay.
So it’s my tax dollars paying for graft there instead of potable water- it they want to live their happy lives without comment, then they need to stop being such horrible leaches on the backs of honest American taxpayers.
"The ten states that have the highest number of SNAP recipients are: California (3,789,000), Texas (3,406,000), Florida (2,847,000), New York (2,661,000), Illinois (1,770,000), Pennsylvania (1,757,000), Georgia (1,424,000), Ohio (1,383,000), North Carolina (1,298,000), and Michigan (1,180,000). The states with the highest percentage of SNAP recipients are New Mexico (21%), Louisiana (17%), West Virginia (17%), Alabama (15%), and Mississippi (15%). New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Oklahoma, Nevada, and Rhode Island all have 14%. In Wyoming and Utah, only 5% of residents are SNAP recipients, the lowest in the U.S."
It's mostly economics. Republicans always see the world as a zero-sum situation. If you lift a finger to provide help or support for a lower class, or do anything to raise them out of poverty, that automatically means, to them, that there is less wealth (power, freedom, privilege) for the more wealthy classes. They are committed to maintaining the status quo. That is almost all you need to know about the GOP.
What planet do you live on? Its the Democrats who see economics as zero-sum.
Republicans want to grow the pie for all. Democrats want to re-distribute wealth (except for the billionaires who are mostly Democrats).
Its not as poor as people make it out to be. Yes, people have less money. But they also have a lower cost of living. So it's not necessarily as bad as you might think.
Also, people who choose to live in rural states like Mississippi often choose to live there because they don't WANT to worry about making a lot of money. They voluntarily choose a simple lifestyle so that they can make do on fewer dollars. But the choice to live on smaller salaries and wages is not reflected in income statistics.
Why haven't Republican economic approaches fixed a state like Mississippi? The state is dominated by Republicans and yet it's always the poorest state. Why?
Red states in general are not poorer than blue states. It’s just that red states tend to be less urbanized than blue states. Actually blue states tend to be less stable because they have more poor people, homeless people, higher crime rates and the unemployment rate is much higher.
Red states in general are not poorer than blue states. It’s just that red states tend to be less urbanized than blue states. Actually blue states tend to be less stable because they have more poor people, homeless people, higher crime rates and the unemployment rate is much higher.
The county in the US with the highest proportion of SNAP recipients is reportedly Magoffin County in KY. It is a Republican stronghold.
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