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Do You Live in a “Death Spiral” State?

Bob_K Wrote: Jan 06, 2013 9:34 AM

Seriously ? They are states that steal from the people, which doesn't indicate a great deal of caring. They are states whose government managers are voluntarily setting a timer for the final destruction of the state and hope they won't be around when it goes off. But the poor citizens of those states WILL be around. Care about people ? Nothing is further from the truth.

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Do You Live in a “Death Spiral” State?

Three years ago, I put together a “Moocher Index” that measured the degree to which non-poor people in a state were benefiting from redistribution programs.

As you can see if you click on the nearby table, Vermont was the worst state, followed by Mississippi, Maine, New York, and Massachusetts.

I confessed that my Moocher Index was a crude and imprecise tool, but it was one of my most popular posts in the early days of this blog. Probably because it was a way of measuring the degree to which people were being lured to ride in the wagon of government...