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Originally Posted by zimmy
First, why don't you look at state and local debt as a percent of gdp. It is much more telling than per person. Comparing debt per person ignores way too many factors and makes comparisons between states pretty much pointless.
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Also, CT's decades of Republican governors and democratic congress have more to do with CT's debt than a governor who was inaugurated in 2011. And I don't even like the guy, but come on. |
"It is much more telling than per person"
Debt per person tells me how much more I owe. I can't control any of the state GDP other than myself.
"makes comparisons between states pretty much pointless"
I'm a statistician. I don't believe looking at it per person is pointless. I'm not saying it's the only way of looking at it, but it's certainly not pointless.
"Also, CT's decades of Republican governors"
Ah, yes, the song of the truly desperate...
Yes, CT has had governors from the Republican party. But none were conservatives. There is exactly zero evidence of any conservative idealism that exists in the CT political landscape.
Zimmy, what is truly "pointless" is saying that the existence of a Republican governor means that CT is not a perfectly liberal state. A liberal can be a Republican.
CT is a petri dish through which we can view the results of a generation of pure, unchecked, liberalism. The conservatives in CT have not enacted a single conservative ideal, particularly in the area of economics.
Zimmy, enlighten me...if CT had never had a republican governor, exactly
what would be different in this state?
"a governor who was inaugurated in 2011..."
And what did he do? He implemented the single largest tax increase in the history of our state, and worse, he
made it retroactive to 6 months earlier than implemented (meaning, we had to pay double the increase for the second half of 2011). Malloy also personally approved of the idiotic, unexcusable, $550 million busway.