Florida is now one of the most financially stressed states in the country, second only to another Southern state, according to a new report by WalletHub, which defines financial distress as having credit in forbearance or deferring payments due to financial difficulty.
“When you combine data about people delaying payments with other metrics like bankruptcy filings and credit score changes, it paints a good picture of the overall economic trends of a state,” WalletHub analyst Chip Lupo said about the findings.
Alaska’s high rating could very well have something to do with the Permanent Dividend Fund that every resident receives.
But honestly, this ranking does feel like just another way to keep the masses arguing amongst themselves over which political ideology or state is right; rather than focusing efforts on the ones at the very top sucking up all the wealth from the rest of us.
Blue states need to stop paying taxes. Taxation without representation no bueno. We can take the immigrants an ya’ll can have your theocratic dictatorship run by the imbecile pedo con man.
ya’ll can have your theocratic dictatorship
Nope, give them that and they’ll use it as base of operations for perpetually harassing the rest of us because their politics don’t work unless they’re always on the attack, we have to actually deal with Republicans and neutralize their ability to harm us
Fair point but it doesn’t seem like we’re going to neutralize anything at this point and it’s worrying
Blue states need to secede.
While it’s a nice sentiment it runs into the rather awkward problem that states don’t actually pay any taxes. People and businesses pay taxes, not states. Exactly who is going to protect the citizens of a state when the IRS comes down on them for not paying their federal taxes?
2nd amendment time I guess. We protect our communities and state from tyranny
Ok. You first.
That has always been the problem with the 2a crowd from either side. Momentum. The first few ten or hundred or thousand are considered crazy wildcards and psychopaths.
Luigi may be a patron saint to a lot of people, but ain’t nobody stepping up without more momentum. And it never showed up.
This isn’t any different, and that’s why it doesn’t work yet. Pay your taxes. Use the rest on things you support. Take that tax write off to give the gov a little less and donate to causes that are important. Get in arguments and talk politics at the bar and with your family, but put the guns away. It doesn’t help. So enough of it.
Momentum is what’s important.
The first few ten or hundred or thousand are considered crazy wildcards and psychopaths.
Because they are.
Shit states lead to shit lives. It’s not hard.
They have to deflect from their failed states by attacking the successful states like California and New York.
Desantis and his wife were money laundering and taking kick backs from Medicaid through his wife’s charity.
As DeSantis administration officials scrambled last year to craft a Medicaid overbilling settlement that diverted millions to the Hope Florida Foundation, lawyers for healthcare contractor Centene and the Florida Attorney General’s Office tried to distance their clients from the agreement, a trove of newly released records shows.
Over 22 days in September, then-Chief Deputy Attorney General John Guard repeatedly removed references to his office in drafts of the settlement passed among negotiators.
Centene’s lawyers inserted language emphasizing that the company was “directed by the state” to donate $10 million of its $67 million settlement to the foundation. The attorneys insisted that Florida’s Office of Inspector General or attorney general be mentioned in the agreement.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article311619075.html (look up Florida Hope scandal and there’s tons more)
Hope Florida charity paid for hotel rooms, perks for DeSantis officials
It wasn’t the first time the Hope Florida Foundation, which benefits a program spearheaded by Florida first lady Casey DeSantis, has failed to file key paperwork. In April, its board president told state lawmakers that the charity had not filed any tax returns, created a budget or conducted audits required by law.
The charity is under investigation after diverting $10 million from a settlement with the state’s largest Medicaid contractor to a pair of nonprofits that then gave millions to a political committee.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article308664570.html
Rick Scott had big shoes for DeSantis to fill. He kept up figuratively with the fraud but literally his shoes are clownish.
@MicroWave When you have corrupt Governors and lawmakers that’s what you get. When will the people there learn?
it’s gerrymandered all to shit and they’re about to make it worse. that combined with the defeated attitude of registered but non-voting democrats and the lack of strong leadership further enhances the supression.
When they have an education system designed to educate. Wait.
MicroWave is a bot
Yeah no
I was going to stick up for you, but I figured you would step up.
Thanks, that’s nice to hear from a fellow longtimer.
I am absolutely shocked. I apologize. This entire time I’ve thought wrong.
Fucking welfare states /s
Living in Texas myself, I’ve applied for and never gotten any kind of government assistance many times throughout my life. The one time I was able to get unemployment benefits, they gave me $500 one month and told me to pay it back two weeks later. I hate this state and truly wish I was able to move.
Same, I applied of for food stamps and medicaid after my kid was born. My kid got medicaid, we did not. I got 50$ a month, that’s like half a single grocery trip. I called saying “this must not be right” The lady belittle me saying “do you know how food stamps works?!”
I was telling my ex we need to get out for years, and with a kid I don’t think she’ll budge. The temptation to grab my kid and go is growing, but her job as spa receptionists and “opertunity to grow” is more important.
Opportunity ain’t putting food on the table.
If only there were spas to work at literally everywhere other than Texas
If only a spa receptionist had opportunities to grow. It’s a dead end job that will never be given a chance to grow — especially if your half way competent at it.
Can we just break up the country already? Let the Jesusland states go wallow in their stupidity and let the rest of must continue on into the 21st century.
Fuck the red states.
Not everyone in these states are Republican. Check out the results for any major city on them.
That’s why Texas Rs are hellbent on gerrymandering. Otherwise of it was fair and square they will lose.
Yup. There are good people in those states and we should help them leave. There is no good future in red states. We should let them wither and die or let them leave. They are a cancer.
Seems like it would end up as 3+ countries. You have like Cascadia + CO/NM (maybe AZ?) and New England + MN/WI/IL and then Magastan separating them. Hawaii could just mahalo on out of this bullshit. Maybe Alaska just says “fuck this, eh?”
I’m good with that.
Why would Florida having a high ranking for people falling behind on debt among all states be particularly problematic? I mean, someone’s going to be #2.
And Alaska’s on nearly at the other end of the scale, based on their ratings, and it’s red.
FUCK YEAH!!! SUCK IT, FLORIDA!!!
We are number one! We are number one!
Don’t messes with Texas, bitches!
-PEW! PEW!-
Whoops! Celebratory gunshot accidentally sent a celebratory bullet into a school. Eh, the kids are used to it
Damn welfare queens the lot of them.
Jesus, guns, and beer will make it all better. Idiot state
Hopefully some more drought for one and flooding for the other will thin the herd a bit in the coming months and years.
