Lets add the debt in.
California, NY, NJ, MA, MI, IL - these are all bankrupt and will have huge tax bills coming for their citizens. They have pensions that they cannot pay so they will take from workers to pay it.
Without the irresponsibility in the Dem leadership concerning muni unions and spending, there is only half of a conversation.
The article is flawed.
Do they take into account cost of living? Money goes a LOT further in those states.
No joke. Even in super-lean 2011 Montana had a freaking budget SURPLUS thanks to its tight-fisted Republican legislature.
(The governor is a Democrat and a blooming idiot—I repeat myself—but that is about to change.)
Good lord, Montana has oil, coal, gold, silver, platinum, palladium, timber, water, fine cropland and better rangeland, hearty people (the locals anyway) and endless miles of wide-open country...and this Jackass wants to tell me that New York or Illinois is rich and Montana poor?
Sure. Good. I’ll help him spread the word.