It's a popular myth that conservatives are rich and liberals are poor. Based on what this article shows, there's a solid correlation between liberal leaning states and high incomes, and conservative leaning states with the lowest incomes.

Top 10 wealthiest states:
Maryland $65,144
New Jersey $64,470
Connecticut $63,422
Hawaii $61,160
Massachusetts $59,963
New Hampshire $59,683
Alaska $59,393
California $56,645
Virginia $56,277
Minnesota $54,023

The 10 poorest states:
Montana $40,627
Tennessee $40,315
Kentucky $39,372
Louisiana $39,337
Alabama $38,783
Oklahoma $38,770
Arkansas $36,599
West Virginia $35,059
Mississippi $34,473

http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/28/real_estate/wealthiest_states/index.htm?postvers ion=2007082814

I would also say that this points to correlations between education between liberal leaning states vs conservative leaning states, as we all know education increases your earnings.

Individuals living in the liberal state have to earn more money just to pay the increased tax load.

No, liberals living in the high earning states are paying the tax load for the poorer states because they can't pay their own way. Similar concept to how the urban areas subsidize the rural areas.

I was referring the the tax load within those state, being spent in those states on a maximum load of socialism.

And he was referring to that portion of said tax load that is exported, because the under educated and under performing states are always just importing their dollars.

And that importing (of taxes) is a major function of their lower tax burden.

Those states are a net loss where the overall tax burden is concerned.

One of the biggest contributors to our overall tax burden, no matter what anybody believes politically, is and will continue to be, the Iraq war. Half a trillion dollars coming out of everybodys ass.

Smarter action there, would easily have paid for any reasonable delta on services, and then some.

In other words, the taxes we have to pay, doing nothing new, are a lot higher than they could be no matter what. Any bitching about how much a given program may cost is dwarfed by the Iraq nut we all will be cracking every year for a good long time.

Remove California from our economy and the entire south would collapse.

Was the only criteria looked at the average salary of each state?
It doesn't have as much to do with taxes as it does that the cost of living is much higher in some places than it is in others.
(clicks on link to article and sees how the numbers were derived) Yep, "median household income."

Lets see, in the TOP 10 wealthiest states, there is only 1 "right-to-work" state, and in the 10 POOREST states, there are SIX "right-to-work" states.

No discussion required. Facts speak louder than words.


So lets line up those conservative a-holes who spout BS "fairness" about "right-to-work" laws and de-nut them.

Have an androgen day.