{"id":34544,"date":"2018-10-22T11:34:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T15:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=34544"},"modified":"2018-10-22T11:34:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T15:34:28","slug":"going-against-conventional-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=34544","title":{"rendered":"Going Against Conventional Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Breitbart<\/a> posted an article about a recent study of which states are the wealthiest and which are the poorest. Then Breitbart compared those results with the voting records of the people in those states. The results were surprising.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Democrats paint themselves as the party looking out for the little guy and more interested than Republicans in representing the poor and their best interests.<\/h2>\n

But according to Ken Fisher, the founder and executive chairman of Fisher Investments, best-selling author and one of the richest men<\/a> in the United States, a USA Today<\/em> study<\/a> released earlier this month that shows the economic profile of all 50 states, ranked by household income, reveals much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When Fisher read what he called \u201ca breathtaking economic profile\u201d of the states he found in it something that was \u201cembedded\u201d in it that reveals what he believes is \u201carguably the greatest unseen political truth of our time.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the surprising correlation:<\/p>\n

USA Today headlined its story reporting on its findings: \u201cWealth in America: Where are the richest and poorest states based on household income?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

But Fisher headlined his commentary<\/a> about the study published in USA Today<\/em> on Sunday: \u201cMidterms: Poorest states have Republican legislatures, and richest have Democratic ones.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFathom it, and you will\u00a0see how politics may unexpectedly affect economics and wealth for years to come,\u201d Fisher wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article points out that the five richest states have legislatures controlled by Democrats. He doesn’t mention that those states also have some of the highest tax rates in the country. Those states are Maryland, New Jersey, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.\u00a0 According to an article at Wallet Hub<\/a>, a website that ranks states according to tax rates, Maryland ranks 44th, New Jersey ranks 47th, Hawaii ranks 51st, Massachusetts ranks 45th, and Connecticut ranks 49th in the list of states with the lowest tax rates. Yes, I know there are not 51 states, but the District of Columbia was included in the list.<\/p>\n

I guess you have to move to a state with a legislature controlled by Republicans if you want lower taxes.<\/p>\n

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