{"id":4703,"date":"2020-01-10T07:13:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T12:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2020-01-10T07:19:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T12:19:47","slug":"study-worst-run-states-are-run-by-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/study-worst-run-states-are-run-by-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"STUDY: Worst Run States Are Run By Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

https:\/\/bongino.com\/study-worst-run-states-are-run-by-democrats\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The national debt is a ticking time bomb now topping $23.1 trillion \u2013 and that isn\u2019t even the total debt that American taxpayers owe. Forty of the nation\u2019s fifty states don\u2019t have enough money to meet their obligations, with a total of $1.5 trillion in growing unfunded liabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While most states are in hot water, the problem is worst in states with a Democrat governor alongside a Democrat controlled legislature. A new study from Truth in Accounting<\/a> analyzed the fiscal health of the fifty states and  and the trend was clear. The more Republican control, the better (and less-worse) fiscal health those states are in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The worst run states and their unfunded liabilities per citizen, according to their \u201c2019 Financial State of the States,\u201d are:Advertisement<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Vermont<\/a>, -$19,000<\/li>
  2. New York<\/a>, -$20,500<\/li>
  3. California<\/a>, -$21,800<\/li>
  4. Kentucky<\/a>, -$25,700<\/li>
  5. Delaware<\/a>, -$27,100<\/li>
  6. Hawaii<\/a>, -$31,200<\/li>
  7. Massachusetts<\/a>, -$31,200<\/li>
  8. Connecticut<\/a>, -$51,800<\/li>
  9. Illinois<\/a>, -$52,600<\/li>
  10. New Jersey<\/a>, -$65,100<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Kentucky is the only state on the list with a Republican controlled legislature (and still had a Republican governor during the time-frame of this study). Every single other state has a Democrat controlled legislature. The only hints of Red is Massachusetts\u2019 and Vermont\u2019s Republican governors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The best states actually had a surplus per citizen. They are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Alaska<\/a>, $74,200 per taxpayer<\/li>
    2. North Dakota<\/a>, $30,700<\/li>
    3. Wyoming<\/a>, $20,800<\/li>
    4. Utah<\/a>, $5,300<\/li>
    5. Idaho<\/a>, $2,900<\/li>
    6. Tennessee<\/a>, $2,800<\/li>
    7. South Dakota<\/a>, $2,800<\/li>
    8. Nebraska<\/a>, $2,000<\/li>
    9. Oregon<\/a>, $1,600<\/li>
    10. Iowa<\/a>, $700<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      Alaska is an outlier due to oil wealth combined with a low population, and has a split legislature with a Republican governor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Every single other state with the exception of Oregon has a Republican governor and legislature. Nebraska is technically an exception in that they\u2019re the only state with a unicameral legislature \u2013 but that is Republican controlled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The next nine states on the list have relatively low levels of unfunded liabilities under $2,500 per citizen, and are majority Republican controlled (with Virginia as the only exception).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      This all being said, the majority of states are still being mismanaged. Fortunately, there are ten other states they can model themselves after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      https:\/\/bongino.com\/study-worst-run-states-are-run-by-democrats\/ The national debt is a ticking time bomb now topping $23.1 trillion \u2013 and that isn\u2019t even the total debt that American taxpayers owe. Forty of the nation\u2019s fifty states don\u2019t have enough money to meet their obligations, with a total of $1.5 trillion in growing unfunded liabilities. While most states are in hot … Continue reading STUDY: Worst Run States Are Run By Democrats<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4705,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions\/4705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}