GOP Lawmakers Offer Disaster Victims Prayers, But Not Aid

Mississippi was listed as the 36th ranked economy, ahead of Nebraska, behind D.C.

I'm sure they drink more Kool-Aid and have fewer per-capita teeth...But what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

I updated my information:

For every dollar that Mississippi puts in to the Federal Gov't, it gets $1.84 cents back....

$10mil = $18.4mil, etc.....

The numbers are from "The Tax Foundation" Those aren't the newest numbers (2004), but it was the newest I could find.

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog ... _feed.html



Edited to add: I found a chart for 2005...It went up from $1.84 to: $2.02....

So, they got back $2.02 for every dollar sent in......

http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/22685.html

The economic rank was to show the people of Mississippi aren't just po folks.

Indeed they aren't just po folks. Mississippi is a really good state to visit if you want to see just how far economic inequality has come in our times.

Yet only two of the top 500 earners in America live there per Forbes.

If I was in the top 100,000 earners I wouldn't live there.

But that's not the point. Mississippi is a great place to live if you are in the top 1% of income earners and an absolute hellhole if you are not.

Truly a model state for what our Republican leadership would like for all of us.

Wow, so Jimmy Buffett is a right wing promoting liar? I can find poor people in every state, some have both rural poor and innercity poor.

AspenValley wrote: As I said, PS, you seriously don't know much about Mississippi.

I know that the state budget tab for the health services and welfare is double the percentage in Mississippi what it is in Colorado.

PrintSmith wrote:

AspenValley wrote: As I said, PS, you seriously don't know much about Mississippi.

I know that the state budget tab for the health services and welfare is double the percentage in Mississippi what it is in Colorado.

Yep, that's probably so.

That tends to happen when income inequality gets that bad.

You can hire someone for five bucks an hour to scrub out your toilets in a place like that, but they are trying to support three kids and their aged parents on that $5 an hour. Do you seriously think they can do that without food stamps and Medicaid?

Just saying, be careful what you ask for. When unions are driven out, when wages fall really low, when there are no benefits, what do you think happens? Either the difference between what employers are willing to pay and what it actually takes to live gets made up through taxes, or people just plain starve and die from simple medical problems.

I KNOW what it's like in Mississippi, wonder if you do.

AspenValley wrote:

PrintSmith wrote:

AspenValley wrote: As I said, PS, you seriously don't know much about Mississippi.

I know that the state budget tab for the health services and welfare is double the percentage in Mississippi what it is in Colorado.

Yep, that's probably so.

That tends to happen when income inequality gets that bad.

You can hire someone for five bucks an hour to scrub out your toilets in a place like that, but they are trying to support three kids and their aged parents on that $5 an hour. Do you seriously think they can do that without food stamps and Medicaid?

Just saying, be careful what you ask for. When unions are driven out, when wages fall really low, when there are no benefits, what do you think happens? Either the difference between what employers are willing to pay and what it actually takes to live gets made up through taxes, or people just plain starve and die from simple medical problems.

I KNOW what it's like in Mississippi, wonder if you do.

When paying the union wage and the union benefits results in a product too expensive to compete in the marketplace, what happens to the company that produces the product? What happens to the strength of a state when the fiscal demands to meet the benefits of the public sector union result in other priorities being ignored?

In the Mississippi State Budget, 11% of it is pensions, 16% of it is education, and 47% of it is Health Care and Welfare. Seems like something, or quite a few things actually, are a bit out of whack there, doesn't it?