Posted on 07/23/2023 8:35:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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When did DC become a state?
The children writing this probably never left their home offices to write this.
Texas does have a decently sized minerals economy, both surface and subsurface.
And naming NY as tops for green energy? Texas produces 1/3 of the nations' wind and solar energy output.
At least they remembered that Tesla left CA for the San Fran of Texas ...
| Rank | State | Real GDP (chained 2012 dollars) | GDP | Sq. Miles | GDP/SqMile |
| 34 | District of Columbia | $129 billion | 129,000,000,000 | 68 | $1,897,058,824 |
| T9 | New Jersey | $582 billion | 582,000,000,000 | 7,419 | $78,447,230 |
| 12 | Massachusetts | $544 billion | 544,000,000,000 | 7,838 | $69,405,461 |
| 45 | Rhode Island | $55 billion | 55,000,000,000 | 1,034 | $53,191,489 |
| 23 | Connecticut | $253 billion | 253,000,000,000 | 4,845 | $52,218,782 |
| 16 | Maryland | $369 billion | 369,000,000,000 | 9,775 | $37,749,361 |
| 3 | New York | $1.6 trillion | 1,600,000,000,000 | 47,224 | $33,881,077 |
| 43 | Delaware | $66 billion | 66,000,000,000 | 1,955 | $33,759,591 |
| 4 | Florida | $1.1 trillion | 1,100,000,000,000 | 53,997 | $20,371,502 |
| 1 | California | $2.9 trillion | 2,900,000,000,000 | 155,973 | $18,592,962 |
| 6 | Pennsylvania | $726 billion | 726,000,000,000 | 44,820 | $16,198,126 |
| 7 | Ohio | $639 billion | 639,000,000,000 | 40,953 | $15,603,253 |
| 5 | Illinois | $798 billion | 798,000,000,000 | 55,593 | $14,354,325 |
| 13 | Virginia | $513 billion | 513,000,000,000 | 39,598 | $12,955,200 |
| 41 | Hawaii | $75 billion | 75,000,000,000 | 6,423 | $11,676,787 |
| 11 | North Carolina | $560 billion | 560,000,000,000 | 48,718 | $11,494,725 |
| 8 | Georgia | $591 billion | 591,000,000,000 | 57,919 | $10,203,905 |
| 19 | Indiana | $353 billion | 353,000,000,000 | 35,870 | $9,841,093 |
| 40 | New Hampshire | $83 billion | 83,000,000,000 | 8,969 | $9,254,097 |
| 17 | Tennessee | $368 billion | 368,000,000,000 | 41,220 | $8,927,705 |
| 9 | Washington | $582 billion | 582,000,000,000 | 66,582 | $8,741,101 |
| 14 | Michigan | $490 billion | 490,000,000,000 | 56,539 | $8,666,584 |
| 25 | South Carolina | $226 billion | 226,000,000,000 | 30,111 | $7,505,563 |
| 2 | Texas | $1.9 trillion | 1,900,000,000,000 | 261,914 | $7,254,290 |
| 21 | Wisconsin | $312 billion | 312,000,000,000 | 54,314 | $5,744,375 |
| 28 | Kentucky | $201 billion | 201,000,000,000 | 39,732 | $5,058,895 |
| 26 | Louisiana | $217 billion | 217,000,000,000 | 43,566 | $4,980,948 |
| 20 | Minnesota | $350 billion | 350,000,000,000 | 79,617 | $4,396,046 |
| 22 | Missouri | $301 billion | 301,000,000,000 | 68,898 | $4,368,777 |
| 27 | Alabama | $213 billion | 213,000,000,000 | 50,750 | $4,197,044 |
| 15 | Colorado | $386 billion | 386,000,000,000 | 103,730 | $3,721,199 |
| 51 | Vermont | $31 billion | 31,000,000,000 | 9,249 | $3,351,714 |
| 31 | Iowa | $177 billion | 177,000,000,000 | 55,875 | $3,167,785 |
| 18 | Arizona | $356 billion | 356,000,000,000 | 113,642 | $3,132,645 |
| 42 | West Virginia | $72 billion | 72,000,000,000 | 24,087 | $2,989,164 |
| 30 | Oklahoma | $191 billion | 191,000,000,000 | 68,679 | $2,781,054 |
| 24 | Oregon | $235 billion | 235,000,000,000 | 96,003 | $2,447,840 |
| 35 | Arkansas | $127 billion | 127,000,000,000 | 52,075 | $2,438,790 |
| 29 | Utah | $192 billion | 192,000,000,000 | 82,168 | $2,336,676 |
| 37 | Mississippi | $105 billion | 105,000,000,000 | 46,914 | $2,238,138 |
| 44 | Maine | $65 billion | 65,000,000,000 | 30,865 | $2,105,945 |
| T32 | Kansas | $165 billion | 165,000,000,000 | 81,823 | $2,016,548 |
| 36 | Nebraska | $124 billion | 124,000,000,000 | 76,878 | $1,612,945 |
| 32 | Nevada | $165 billion | 165,000,000,000 | 109,806 | $1,502,650 |
| 39 | Idaho | $84 billion | 84,000,000,000 | 82,751 | $1,015,093 |
| 38 | New Mexico | $95 billion | 95,000,000,000 | 121,365 | $782,763 |
| 46 | North Dakota | $53 billion | 53,000,000,000 | 68,994 | $768,183 |
| 47 | South Dakota | $50 billion | 50,000,000,000 | 75,898 | $658,779 |
| 50 | Wyoming | $36 billion | 36,000,000,000 | 97,105 | $370,733 |
| T47 | Montana | $50 billion | 50,000,000,000 | 145,556 | $343,510 |
| T47 | Alaska | $50 billion | 50,000,000,000 | 570,641 | $87,621 |
Washington DC has a huge GDP per capita. What is their product? In Texas we produce oil, gas, minerals, high tech, much agriculture, timber, manufacturing, airplanes, automobiles, rockets to space, cutting edge medical research, freedom, etc. That is GDP. DC is a sinkhole for our tax dollars. How do our tax dollars to pay government become a product?
I think it would be more useful if we used GDP per CAPITA.
I agree. GDP per capita would be better. Maybe I’ll do that tomorrow
These numbers mix bucks earned by pie producers with bucks sucked out by pie slicers.
Think about it.
D.C. is a sink for money....
Product? hahaha...
This is so utterly WRONG…
Rank State Personal Income per Capita
1 District of Columbia $96,728
2 Connecticut $84,972
3 Massachusetts $84,945
4 New Jersey $78,700
5 New York $78,089
6 California $77,339
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>These numbers mix bucks earned by pie producers with bucks sucked out by pie slicers.<
Agreed. Government(pie slicer) jobs should be subtracted from GDP since they draw from the economy to exist.
EC
Now add Ukraine
Democrats control counties that account for 70% of the USA’s GDP.
If you look at the states by per capita income, it is revealing.
They don’t discuss the government part of GDP, Look at the top 10 states and you see the government affect. But in reality much of the government sector is a capital sink, contributes little to actual production of anything.
Do these numbers include government “services”?
The deeper issue is that these numbers started to lose their meaning when the country changed from a private manufacturing powerhouse (producing real stuff needed all over the world) to a government/health care/finance/insurance/real estate powerhouse that actually “produces” relatively little.
The government expenditure example is obvious—but likewise real estate agents selling one person’s existing house to another person is not “producing” anything.
The “product” is not “product” any more.
continuing my post—take a look at the largest employers in different regions.
The top ten are mostly city or county or state government, hospitals, school districts etc. with manufacturing operations having only one or two on the list.
continuing—Here is the Los Angeles list as a random example:
1 Kaiser Permanente 37,468
2 University of Southern California 21,055
3 Northrop Grumman Corp. 16,600
4 Providence Health Southern California 15,952
5 Target Corp. 15,000
6 Ralphs/Food 4 Less(Kroger Co. Division) 14,970
7 Cedars-Sinai Medical Center 14,903
8 Walt Disney Co. 13,000
9 Allied Universal 12,879
10 NBC Universal 12,000
Northrop is the only company that produces actual “stuff”—and of course they sell most of that “stuff” to the government—military expenditures.
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