^what? lol
If you're going to limit it that way, sure. If you're going to look at all of the states, then blue states tend to have less inequality.
Though I also think that overall living standards are more important than any one thing. Being poor in a state that has generous social programs isn't as bad as being in a state that doesn't.
https://www.homesnacks.net/these-are...merica-123067/
So that's incorrect. The Left vs Right divide goes back to the French Revolution. The Left wanted Democracy and a redistribution of power spread more evenly. The Right wanted power to remain in the hands of the Aristocracy. When it became clear that Democracy was the new law of the land, the Right decided that they could use Capitalism and Christianity to keep power in a hierarchical structure. The Right is not about free markets, it's about strict hierarchy. From Edmund Burke to Ayn Rand to Jordan Peterson, it's always about hierarchy.As for how to define right and left wing
Right wing = free(er) markets (market economies)
Left wing = more command economies
This is why the Right has been opposed to any social movement that redistributes wealth and power in any way. It's also why government grows bigger under Republicans. It's not about small government, never was.
So with all that being said, a country like Saudi Arabia is right-wing, both in terms of culture and economics. A country like Switzerland is left-wing.
Notice how the most culturally liberal countries also just happen to have smaller government.
^what? lol
I forgot, you’re a racial separatist socialist millennial and thus don’t have memories of the lefts support for command economies such as the Soviet Union and Cuba. And since they were shown to be total failures folks such as yourself act like that was inevitable instead of the future as it was often called at the time (and you see older Democratic politicians having to walk back their support for Castro) Capitalism is better than any other system conceived for generating rising living standards, innovation and personal freedom. Yes capitalism has flaws, no denying that, but the above sentence is true. That’s right wing, or classic liberalism, economics.
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Nope. The Left never supported the Soviet Union. During the Russian Provisional Government, the Left voted for a Liberal Democracy. The Bolsheviks, being typical right-wing Fascists, used force to take over and create a Fascist government. And did the Bolsheviks create collective ownership like the Marxists wanted? No, instead they created State Capitalism which was more similar to economies that Fascists had in Germany, Italy, Austria, and Spain.
As for the Cuban Revolution, there are two important things to consider. First, Cuba already had a dictatorship. If Democracy had been an option, the Left would have chosen that, but it wasn't. There was no chance at a vote, like in Russia, so the Left was forced to choose between two Dictators. They chose the less shitty one.
Secondly, the Revolution happened during the Cold War, which is why Cuba needed to be Authoritarian. They're an island country next to the American Empire in a time when America was the aggressor. Russia and China have no excuse, but I totally understand why Cuba needed a government like this.
So why do countries with Social Democracy do better than America and other countries with Capitalism?Capitalism is better than any other system conceived for generating rising living standards, innovation and personal freedom. Yes capitalism has flaws, no denying that, but the above sentence is true. That’s right wing, or classic liberalism, economics.
And why are countries like the Soviet Union and Maoist China considered Socialist when they did not have collective ownership?
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Except California...
https://www.ppic.org/publication/inc...in-california/While California’s economy outperforms the nation’s, its level of income inequality exceeds that of all but five states. Families at the top of the income distribution in California have 12.3 times the income of families at the bottom ($262,000 versus $21,000, for the 90th and 10th percentiles, respectively, in 2018), measured before taxes and safety net programs. The disparity is present throughout the state. Current government policies substantially narrow the gap between rich and poor.
https://calmatters.org/california-di...s-are-extreme/California is the golden state — at least for those at the top of the income scale. For everyone else, the nickname may apply more to the sun than to money.
That’s one takeaway of an analysis of U.S.Census Bureau data by the California Budget and Policy Center (CBPC), which found a widening gap between the state’s haves and have-nots.
Or New York...
http://fiscalpolicy.org/nys-leads-na...ome-inequalityRegarding New York, the report’s key findings include:
The top 1 percent earned 45 times more than the bottom 99 percent in New York, the greatest disparity of any state. Connecticut ranked second with a top-to-bottom ratio of nearly 43. Wyoming was third, followed by Nevada and Florida. (Table 1)
The average annual income of the top 1 percent was $2 million (Table 1), and New York’s richest 1/100 of top 1% (“the 1% of the 1%”) had average incomes of $61.6 million, second to Connecticut’s $69.5 million. (Table 4)
Within New York State, only two counties—New York (Manhattan) and Westchester—have greater top-to-bottom income ratios than the state overall. In Manhattan, the average income of the top 1% ($8.1 million) was 116 times that of the 99% ($70,500), while in Westchester County, the average income of the top 1% ($4.3 million) was 54 times that of the 99% ($80,300).
High levels of income polarization are not limited to downstate New York. The third most income-polarized county was Saratoga, north of Albany, where the $1.8 million average income for the top 1% was 35 times that of the $51,500 average income for the 99%.
A three decade-long era of shared prosperity came to an end in 1979 when the 1%’s income share started to rise dramatically in New York and in every state in the United States. Since 1979, the average incomes of the top 1% have grown by 272% in inflation-adjusted terms in New York, while the average incomes of the 99% rose a meager 5.4%.
Basically in Blue states there is the greatest amount of income inequality and unfairness in social and economic justice there is in the US. So much for Progressives delivering on their ideas...
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dukkha (08-05-2020), Into the Night (08-05-2020)
When I started working for a food service company back around '01, on my first day, we went to Baltimore. The driver said to watch out for thugs. It was the first time in my life that I saw every convenience store front with steel bars, some you couldn't even enter, they just had a window with bullet-proof glass. While unloading, a thug walked up the ramp to our trailer to steal whatever, so the driver slammed the trailer door shut and locked him in. Apparently he was unconformable in a dark, refrigerated trailer because it sounded like a freight train in there. A cop was driving past so we told him there was a thief in our trailer and he cuffed the thug and put him in his car. The cop drove about a block down the street and left him out of the car. Apparently (attempted) theft isn't a crime in Baltimore. The driver asked me if I still wanted to work there when we got back!
Long story short, I worked there for about a year and a half before the company built a new warehouse too far away and I went back into the machine shop business. We went to DC, Alexandria (and number of Army and Navy bases, including the Pentagon), Phila, Trenton, Manhattan, Boston to name just a few. Don't get me wrong, there were some nice places, but I'd never live in the inner cities. The rats in Manhattan are as big as groundhogs!
All in all, it was an experience I would do again (I made great money!), but the average day was 14-16+ hours, from the time we left until we returned home (some were overnighters, we stayed at a motel) and it was hard work emptying a trailer loaded with 36,000+ lbs. of food using a handcart running up and down a narrow ramp and up and down lots of stairs (every delivery in Manhattan was in a basement) every day.
Common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.
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Learn to think for yourself. Stop stealing the arguments of others and using them as your own.
Total BULLSHIT! This entire article and post is trying to justify tyranny as a means to lengthen life.
BULLSHIT.
Making up numbers. BULLSHIT.
Making up numbers. BULLSHIT.
Making up numbers. BULLSHIT.
Making up numbers. BULLSHIT.
Of course they can't. They are MAKING UP RANDOM NUMBERS and using them as data.
The Milbank report is total BULLSHIT.
There is no 'coronavirus pandemic'. Only 0.3% of the population is infected. The death rate is only 0.002% of the population. This virus is much milder than H1N1 was a few years ago, when Democrats didn't lock down the economy to make Trump look bad, and no one was panicking about masks, and people went about their daily lives. Fuck you.
Total BULLSHIT. This author is obviously trying to justify Marxism.
More made up numbers. BULLSHIT.
Never mind the deaths caused by alcohol, pot, heroin, meth, fentanyl, acid, cigarettes, etc.
Another University Idiot pushing Marxism.
No. Getting off the damned drugs is what is important.
Total BULLSHIT. Marxism doesn't work. It is theft.
Rent controls don't work. They cause a housing shortage. It is fascism.
High taxes to pay for medical care doesn't work. Welfare doesn't work. They are both theft.
Minimum wage laws are price controls. Price controls don't work. Minimum wage laws put people out of work. They are fascism.
Fascism.
Vandalism, assault, arson, and murder are already illegal. Why do you need 'hate crime' laws?
Doesn't support life at all. Same sex couples are not capable of producing a child.
Abortion of a child is killing a child. That is not a good life expectancy for the child.
High taxes mean crappy economy.
You mean propaganda spending.
Determined by the federal government, not by any State.
BULLSHIT. No correlation. See the FBI records on this. Gun control laws are illegal in the United States. There's this thing called the 2nd amendment, you see.
Another 'best of' and 'worst of' list. BULLSHIT opinions.
No such data. Random numbers.
BULLSHIT. There is no data. Manufactured numbers are not data.
Yet another push for Marxism, calling Reagan 'evil'.
BULLSHIT. Bigotry. Random numbers are not data.
BULLSHIT. Random numbers are not data. I've lived in Hawaii.
BULLSHIT numbers again.
BULLSHIT numbers again. Pushing for Marxism again.
You can take your Marxism and stuff it.
You can't 'invest in the population'. you can't 'invest in schools'. They have no ROI. Since schools are basically propaganda centers now, students leave these schools almost as illiterate as when the started them.
Irrelevant.
BULLSHIT numbers. Random made up numbers are not data.
BULLSHIT numbers. Random made up numbers are not data.
Pushing the same Marxism and quoting the same BULLSHIT numbers is still lying.
Take your 'studies' and stick 'em where the sun don't shine, then you crawl in after it.
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