[mikestew]

Louisiana isn’t poor by almost any objective measure.

Uh, by the objective measure of my own two eyes? You can trot out all the fancy numbers you want, I’m not blind. The resource extraction that goes on in Louisiana does not necessarily trickle down to its residents nor even stays in the state.

[sarchertech]

There’s a difference between “there exists people there who are poor” and the state and local governments are poor.

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/state-local-tax-col...

Louisiana is 32nd for tax revue per capita.