Mapped: States Where U.S. Families are Most Strained by Debt

Visual Capitalist ^ | 11/01/2025 | Pallavi Rao

[blackdog]

It's still burning our food. I loved those school classes that breaks down all the products and byproducts out of a bushel of wheat, corn, soy beans, rape seed, sunflower seed, etc....I remember one on corn that listed 162 products being made by that bushel of corn. Did you know the stealth skins and paints on stealth aircraft come from cotton seed cellulose??!! The glass on the face of your smart phone, same thing. Cotton seed fuzz Cellulose is what makes the specialty glass. Cotton seed produces soooo many things. I really think they would rather just throw away the cotton bolls and keep just the seed. One day they may just GMO Cotton into a plant that only produces seeds and no cotton fibers. The world has like a 100 year supply of cotton in warehouses around the world. Same with sheep and wool. If someone could raise sheep designed to just shed their wool coats after getting a shot or vaccine, farmers would switch to all those sheep! Getting that damned wool off represents about $50 per head. If you don't shear your lambs you will pay a fine at auction. Usually about fifty cents a pound. The slaughter houses don't want to have to fill up their dumpsters with wool, which if touches the meat, spoils the meat with an awful soap taste that doesn't wash away.

There is like a 100 year supply of sheep's wool in warehouses around the world. It worse than useless, it's a cost driver in the wrong direction.

[Nervous Tick]

>> The largest producer of ethanol in the USA which they use to poison gasoline into an inferior product.

Heh... I always suspected that. But the Erf has a fever and poisoned gasoline is a vital part of the cure. Or something.

[Nervous Tick]

>> If someone could raise sheep designed to just shed their wool coats

Someone does! They’re called “hair sheep”.

[Nervous Tick]

>> This is on a corrupt congress

Corn state senators would commit seppuku before they would vote to repeal ethanol requirements. Ernst and Grassley, lookin’ at YOU...

[Nervous Tick]

>> Put your money in to support alcohol-free gas in the US.

Our Wally World has it at the pump. It’s all I buy for our small engines. Pricey, but easy on the engine (and the oil & gas industry).

[cpdiii]

I run all my small engines on alcohol free gasoline. It cost more but is much cheaper than throwing away my chain saw etc. My 4 cycle lawn mower works just fine with the alcohol 10% as does my car. Two cycle engines do not like it. It kills them.

[Bigg Red]

mark

[MCF]

I don't put a whole lot of stock in to their findings. Take AZ & FL, both have large number of retirees with higher end homes and vehicles and just modest incomes. Their wealth is in investments which is not calculated in.

[blackdog]

Hair sheep are only adapted to tropical and sub Sahara kinda places. They would die out on range in cold climates.

[CommieCutter]

How is Illinois that low? Rural areas?

[Zathras]

That is also how I read AZ.
We also have many home owners who own two homes.
Renters pay the mortgage on one.

[Dr. Sivana]

How is Illinois that low? Rural areas?

Places like Rockford have affordable, decent housing, in large part because of the exorbitant property taxes. I think it helps to be close to a lot of thge food processing. Grocery prices are better than CT, GA, and AZ.

[fwdude]

I was considering a move to Idaho (Moscow area) and found the housing prices through the roof in a small college town, and for substandard, ugly homes. I’m in Texas, and could have almost twice the home here for the prices they charge in ID. And more property too.

[Nervous Tick]

Hair sheep do well in Texas.

[Organic Panic]

When I was there it were californicators snatching up every scrap of land. Biden also dumped off bus loads of illegals and spread them around under cover of darkness,
Looks like the highest debts are where the Californicators went. Probably by driving up the cost to the locals.

[blackdog]

And Arizona-New Mexico

[CommieCutter]

Are property taxes not included in this calculation? I have some relatives that live in Illinois and they get hosed about 13,000 a year.

[Dr. Sivana]

Are property taxes not included in this calculation? I have some relatives that live in Illinois and they get hosed about 13,000 a year.

Possibly not, and property taxes are sky high. We paid $5,400/year on a $230K house that we had to sell for $170K four years after the 2008 housing price collapse.

Mileage varies greatly depending on where you live. If your friends are in a Cook County suburb, they will be hammered to support Chicago proper. Ifthe housing gets cheap enough, the property taxes, though still high, is less expensive than living elsewhere.

So, for instance, you can buy a 1000 sq ft. house in DePue, IL for $80,000. The property taxes are an exorbitant $1,500. The water there is literally undrinkable (state provides bottled water) because of a closed down zinc works (the ultimate Super Fund site ... the whole town). But, the cost of living is cheap.

[CommieCutter]

I see. Thank You.