yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 4/18/2009
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A few bloggers have noted that Tom DeLay went on a strange neo-secessionist binge yesterday on Hardball with Chris Matthews. This segment of the interview in which he lays out his substantive rationale has gotten less attention. But DeLay’s conceit is that Texas is a “wealthy ...
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Why Does Tom Delay Think Texas Is a Wealthy State?
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... Matthew Yglesias: Delay Claims Poorer-than-Average Texas is “Wealthy” Because Texans “Work Hard”: A few bloggers have noted that Tom DeLay went on a strange neo-secessionist binge yesterday on Hardball with Chris Matthews. This segment of the interview in which he lays out his substantive rationale has gotten less attention. But DeLay’s conceit is that Texas is a “wealthy state” because of it’s right-wing business-friendly policies, a situation that he specifically contrasts with the environment in California, New York, and New ...
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J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
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Tom Delay is Right, Texas is Wealthy
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... Matthew Yglesias
One problem here is that Texas isn't a wealthy state. Its median household income of $47,548 made it 28th in the country. Below average, in other words. New Jersey is second, California is eighth, and New York is nineteenth. Indeed, of the top ten states in per capita income nine are "blue" states. Texas isn't a wealthy state? And Paul Krugman doubles down: Just one minor issue: you really shouldn't use median income, which can be distorted to the extent that inequality differs across ...
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