Posted on 03/12/2023 9:01:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Odessa has its own entry. Quite high, too.
As far as “producing things”, that is a problem with these article’s numbers. It includes spending on welfare, etc.
As far as “producing things”, I can tell you that one time I flew into Midland very late at night (going from Columbus MS to Nevada) and I thought our birds were in fire, but it was the reflected flares from wells making the nice new unpainted plane glow.
Busy bees in west Texas.
Well what kind of house do you get for $1 mil in West Texas and what kind of box do you get in NYC?
Plus no income taxes and less taxes in general.
There’s no comparison.
Fact: Not a single county in Florida makes the top 50 in terms of median income: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-income_counties_in_the_United_States
Some of these cities are just recipients of huge government largesse as government contractors and government itself.
Yep … since X farmland is owned by Cargill, which is headquartered in Wilmington, DE, that’s where the money is “made.”
Similarly for all those pesky items we need to survive.
Very comprehensive list.
So you are saying Sioux Falls, SD is an economic powerhouse?
If you have 10 people in a city with the highest US per capita GDP, what good is that to the nation?
The City States control their states. The coalition of state controlling city states control America
Data is claimed to be from “2021”. A lot of things have changed since then. This article is leftist propaganda.
It’s a lot bigger benefit than Philadelphia.
Take any city you want, expand its area by miles and miles and rename it a metropolitan area.
Then a miracle happens. The “city” has magically gained population and increased economic output.
This is despite the fact that cities have been losing population by the tens of millions since the 1960s. Also , economic output has been collapsing, with businesses fleeing to exurbia.
There are two indisputable facts about leftist cities: They are smelly, depressing sh*tholes and the marxist demographers who write about cities are liars.
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