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.
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.
Judging by the anti pride attacks he’s probably gay too.
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
They will feed the people there constant propaganda about how their poverty and misery is the fault of California or New York, and people will be committing literal acts of terror behind it.
Blue states need to secede.
Give me just a month or two to move to one in advance, please and thank you.
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.
Blue states make it illegal for citizens to pay their federal taxes with threat of prison. Simple.
We could build a wall. The red states will pay for it
You’re gonna get Gilead with that playbook
It’s becoming giliad without the resistance. We need the resistance
I mean by spitting red states and blue states. You definitely need to resist, and way more than has taken place
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.
I live in Tennessee and you all come here. I can not figure out why. You must shed your worst. Either that or people can not afford Cali.
We do. The dumbest among us relocate to the red states. Addition by subtraction.
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.
Oklahoman - I tried applying for unemployment earlier this year, and couldn’t figure it out.
When I was in college I wanted to apply for food stamps, you specifically can not get food stamps if you are taking college classes.
I desperately need legal assistance, I called the legal aid service and they told me they only help seniors with evictions.
I need to see a doctor and a therapist, I can’t. I have no idea what the services would even vex
I used to volunteer at the food banks. I know that process is giving up an entire morning or afternoon, having to bring a shit ton of documentation, and getting expired food. So I’m going to live on cans of ravioli and hot dogs.
I am so god damn sick of people telling me that help exists. There is no help.
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.
Can those of us that are cool apply for adoption by blue states? I promise I’m literate!
The red state brain drain would be the next step
Well I’m sure their wise investments in apartheid, genocide, etc. will certainly pay off. \s \s \s
Seriously tho the default is the point. It’s profitable for them monetarily and ideologically.
We, especially palestinians, are all going to continue to pay the bill for these delusional wackjobs.
As somebody from Upstate NY, I can’t say I feel too bad for them. The south has been holding this country back for decades tbh…
With the party of financial responsibility at the helm, of course.
Brown people! They came illegally, stole all the jobs, and now they’ve taken the economy too. Those black people probably need to go to rebalance thelosses. Maybe the white Christian holyland needs to purge the Jews and other non beleivers too? [predicting the MAGA playlist based upon world history]
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.
According to google, Alaska residents get about $1700 a year per person. That’s not nothing, but it’s hardly enough to guarantee financial solvency. It’s probably not even enough to offset the higher cost of living there.
If you have ever been low income, $1700 is enough to get your attention. You know where that money comes from and when you are low income, a sudden in flow of essentially an extra month and a half of salary for a rural person?
Well, you’re paying attention to that. So maybe have some perspective about what that kind of money means to a person who has a shitty truck and a barely adequate house and spends months in it through a long winter.
I see so much argument around UBI with the assumption it has to be enough to live off or it’s worthless. But Alaska’s system makes a real difference to reducing the number of people living below poverty level, even being just a small fraction of what is required to live there for a year. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pop4.398
Although not designed as a social program to redistribute income, the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) has been reducing poverty by providing equal annual payments to nearly all state residents for over 40 years. …the PFD reduced the number of Alaskans with incomes below the US poverty threshold by 20%–40%… The effect of the PFD has been even larger for vulnerable populations. The PFD has reduced poverty rates of rural Indigenous Alaskans from 28% to less than 22%, and has played an important role in alleviating poverty among seniors and children… up to 50% more Alaska children—15% instead of 10%—would be living in poor families without PFD income. The poverty-ameliorating effects of the PFD have lessened somewhat since 2000, as dividend amounts adjusted for inflation have been declining.
Good and hopefully the decline continues in both red run deregulated Oblasts.
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
By average not by extremes. I think a few years ago a UN Special Report revealed startling examples of extreme poverty in several places in the USA.
A couple of decades ago I was driving around New Mexico sightseeing and drove into a reservation. The poverty I saw hits really hard even now
lol. I got the fuck out of there finally. Sink FL, Sink!
Nooooo I can’t leave until next summer. Stay up for a little longer Florida!
Just get to whichever blue state you’re able to afford to get to. It might be CO. Poverty is a policy choice. People want to bitch and moan about property costs in CO but I’d happily pay those costs under a presumption that I’ll sooner or later have some equity out of those costs.
In FL, a huge chunk of your COL is insurance and power bills. The power company feeds like 20% of their income into GOP election campaigns. You literally need to leave the state in order for Republicans to lose their campaign finances.
