Which states have cut spending?
According to the report:
Expenditure-cutting states are: Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky,Maine, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, and Washington.
Expenditure-expanding states are: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts,Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma,Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
I managed to find it in footnote:
Expenditure-cutting states are: Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, and Washington.
Expenditure-expanding states are: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming
See, it’s all the fault of those darned conservatives in Connecticut and California. Now if they only had been more like the liberals in Texas, Oklahoma, and Arizona...
(I know I cherry-picked, but this whole article illustrates what was meant by “There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.”}