Posted on 04/30/2018 12:17:59 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
Twenty-nine of the top 30 areas with the most million-dollar homes are in California or NYC's Tri-State Area. Eight of the ten wealthiest towns are in California and New York State. Forty percent of the nation's billionaires live in California, New York State, and Connecticut.
But the Washington, D.C., area dominates the list of highest-earning counties, claiming six of the top ten and 13 of the top 30. Why?
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
All tribute flows to Rome...
Because that’s where all the money is.
Why are you posting such an old article under “News”?
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They are getting wealthy from the government”Dole” , government contracts for God knows what business they have with government?
>>But the Washington, D.C., area dominates the list of highest-earning counties, claiming six of the top ten and 13 of the top 30. Why?
The reason there’s so much money in D.C. is that there’s so much power for sale in D.C. Duh.
It is still relevant today.
To live in Washington, D.C. or the NOVA suburbs, it costs more than $100,000+ to live in these places.
Kickback$.
Why? Because that area’s citizenry feeds at the government trough—a trough filled with the hard-earned dollars taken from the pockets of citizens, as well as borrowings which rob future generations of children, as well!!!
not necessarily- my kids live in Alexandria and 1 may have $$ but the other does not.
“I know, I know.” Yes? “They are sucking on the teat.”
Extorted Tribute, of course.
They steal it from us. Walk around DC and you can feel the money bubbling up through the cracks in the sidewalk at you. It’s palpable. And infuriating.
While that is true, there is also a thriving high tech area there as well. Hubby and I lived there for over 25 years working in the computer/defense industries. Lots and lots of highly paid, well educated, well trained techies there. It’s been called the DELMARVA Silicone Valley.....
Why are all the ant around the sugar cube?
Willie Sutton knows.
Politicians and bureaucrats have to have somewhere to spend all their payoffs.
Just a progression of its beginnings. Nothing more...
And they all vote liberal. :^(
As the Russians say:
Moscow is downhill from all the Russias.
The DC area get a big bite of every affluent household’s income.
The government has a way of making things complicated. It takes smart and well-paid people to make a modern government run.
There are also well-paid people in the DC area that try to keep it in check and others that try to loot it, often successfully.
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