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
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.
We could build a wall. The red states will pay for it
Blue states make it illegal for citizens to pay their federal taxes with threat of prison. Simple.
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.
Geez, red states don’t make enough money and spend too much…
Mmmmm, where are all these fiscally savvy Republicans who make sure that the common man can see their taxes spent responsibly?
Oh yeah, that’s right, they’re all lying thieves who only entich themselves. The more Christian a politician claims themselves to be the bigger the thievery and lying. This says a lot about Florida and Texas.
California pays the bills for just about every red state out there. Fuck these states, let them burn…
Keep voting for trump ya bunch of dipshits
Fucking welfare states
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.
Good and hopefully the decline continues in both red run deregulated Oblasts.
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.
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.
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.
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!
