Per Capita: VT: $42,994 US: $42,693
Median: VT: $52,977 US: $51,371
This is not a “poor” state and it can’t afford free healthcare.
Welfare recipients in Vermont make as much as the average worker. Seriously.
>>Welfare recipients in Vermont make as much as the average worker. Seriously.
I would hope so! You do have an openly-socialist Senator (which I applaud his honesty since he’s the only socialist in Congress who is man enough to admit it).
So, the takeaway is that the state feels that it can afford socialist benefits for the non-working, but can’t afford socialist benefits for the working people. When Obama says that he wants to help “working families”, he is saying the exact same thing.
Working-class Democrats need to wake up to this reality....and soon!