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lapucelle

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8. Those figures are incomplete. Where are expenditures?

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #7)

Mon Jan 18, 2021, 04:16 PM

Jan 2021

I don't think that the per capita average income of citizens of a state is a particularly cogent measure of a state government's revenue versus its expenditures, i.e. its "wealth".

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Cuomo tries to buy Pfizer vaccine for NY [View all] pinkstarburst Jan 2021 OP

Well, one can't be sure, but I would think that if a state couldn't afford the vaccines, that SWBTATTReg Jan 2021 #1

Dunno. Seems to me like if we get pinkstarburst Jan 2021 #2

What makes you think NY is one of the "richer" states? lapucelle Jan 2021 #5

From Statista ProfessorGAC Jan 2021 #7

Those figures are incomplete. Where are expenditures? lapucelle Jan 2021 #8

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I'm not even sure if New York can afford the vaccines for the residents liberal_mama Jan 2021 #6

Trump and his minons have been trying to Progressive dog Jan 2021 #3

What criteria/data are you using in your assessment that New York is a "rich" state? lapucelle Jan 2021 #4

Because we send so much money to the Federal government to subsidize poor red states, I really Squinch Jan 2021 #9