Why do red states have less income inequality than blue states?

To The Daily Sun,

Coal isn't the largest contributor to global warming in New Hampshire. It is the CO2 in the hot air exhaled from Nick Vazanna. Nick's stands left of Obama and we all know how poorly the middle class has fared under his presidency. Main Street America has watched incomes drop for last six straight years. Nothing has a more direct link to the deteriorating prosperity of the working class than focusing on redistribution over growth. An ounce of economic growth is worth a pound of welfare cure.

Like Leo Sandy and George Maloof before him, Nick refuses to address the gigantic holes in his logic. And like Leo and George, Nick refuses to apply critical thinking and common sense to problem solving. Idealism overwhelms logic. Nick, Leo and George have the liberal solution before they even understand the problem. The solution is always the same: higher taxes, more debt and bigger government. That kills growth and opportunity.

If the views of Nick, Leo or George had one ounce of credibility they would be able to explain why almost without exception conservative leaning red states have far less income inequality than do big government hugging blue states. That's right, the income gap between the rich and the poor is greater in the Democratic blue states than the Republican red states. The policies like those suggested repeatedly by Nick produce more inequality between the rich and the poor.

The states following the most liberal policies have the greatest income inequality while those following the most conservative policies focusing on growth have the least income inequality. California, the most liberal state in the nation, has greater income inequality than very conservative Texas, while Texas produces the greatest number of new jobs of any state in the country.

Do the states that pay the highest minimum wages like New York and Vermont have lower income inequality? Sorry Nick, they don't. Do states with high state income taxes have less income inequality than those with no income taxes at all? The answer is no again. The policies Nick screams for actually increase income inequality in the final analysis. Further, census reports and IRS data show the current migration of America is strongly from liberal, high-tax states like California to others in the South where right to work, job creation and opportunity is greatest.

When big-government people like Nick fixate on closing income gaps rather than producing a growth climate conducive to prosperity then the middle class and the lower class suffer most. The past six years of Barack Obama are case in point.

Tony Boutin

Gilford