Alaska, Montana, North Dakota, & Wyoming.

Those being the four states that are not running a deficit right now. The relative sizes of the rest can be seen via this handy visual tool:


Via @MelissaTweets

I’d make more commentary on this, except that I can sum it up as stop spending money you don’t have, you idiots. And that is one of those binary things: people either already get that, or they don’t. Either way, there’s not much point for follow-up material. I will note, though, that the ‘top’ five deficit-ridden states (who make up 52% of the total deficit, interestingly enough) have one thing in common: their state legislatures are all dominated by Democratic politicians*.

Yes. Shocking.

Moe Lane

*With the sort-of exception of New York’s; their State Assembly is run by Democrats, and their Senate is currently being run by nobody at all

Crossposted to RedState.

2 thoughts on “Alaska, Montana, North Dakota, & Wyoming.”

  1. The chart would be more interesting to me if it weighted not by total dollars, but instead by percent of budget. So, for example, Texas being 2% into deficit would show up much smaller than California’s 25%. That would more effectively show which states are going to be able to deal with it, and which states probably will not.

    Texas, incidentally, has a rainy day fund with more than enough in it to cover this shortfall, so if you counted that, we wouldn’t be on the chart at all.

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