Mississippi is still the poorest state, and TX is about even with CA. You just pick on Ca because Trump does. Whatever Trump does you say. Florida has a poop map and TX has just as many homeless.
Ca has 10 million more people.
I will pick on any state that has over 460 billion in debt.
It means they ain't doing it right.
What about a state that has a $1.5 trillion debt summary according to its own State Tresurer?
California State Treasurer Debt Watch
Debt does not matter
Mr. RW, debt matters when important people in the legislatures spend more than the people in the jurisdiction of their lawmaking cannot afford more taxes because they are already bereft of taxes on their income, taxes on their real property, taxes on their automobiles and public transit, taxes on mercantile goods, taxes on services, taxes on food, and school taxes that are separate and exceed real property taxes, inheritance and estate taxes, fuel taxes, license taxes, Social Security Taxes, gift taxes, gun permits, toll taxes and fees, zoning permits, workers compensation taxes, and various other city, county, state, and federal taxes hidden as import fees, and taxes levied at any legal level against everyone in an area for one reason or another. There are even special taxes for senior citizens who are living on a fixed income that doesn't give them enough money to go on paying home, auto, and life insurance, not to mention real estate property taxes that somehow get higher after people retire.
A List Of 97 Taxes Americans Pay Every Year
Legislature folks who spend their communities, states, and country often wind up owing taxes to foreign countries who resent not being paid bac for the money borrowed. That leads directly to conflicts, ill will, and war.
Most of our adult generation of the Depression era of the 1930's are gone, but they knew something we have currently forgotten, summarized in this little ditty I learned from my mother:
Use it up.
Wear it out.
Make it do.
And do without.
Children growing up today, unless they are home schooled by very wise parents, can't wrap their minds around what it would be like if they had to give up things. My mother told me that their patriotic duty was to accept limited purchase for certain goods including some foods in order to foot the bill for WWII. They had to make do with making a cake without any eggs, without sugar, without flour, or without whatever was in short supply due to too many able-bodied men going "over there." The saddest thing for kids was when their daddy died over there, and they never got to see him again.
We do not need debts in our lives that are payable to people who don't care for us. Foreign OR domestic. Period.
I rest my case. Oh, wait a minute, there's one other thing. Years ago, I lived in a different place, and a government official, over a 1-year period stole over $100,000 in city funds put in her trust. She got a lawyer, and she got away that without spending so much as one minutes in jail and 30 years to pay it back on time without interest.
Even when you pay taxes, you can't always trust the government trustees to spend your money on what services you thought you were paying and you may have more taxes piled on top of the taxes you regularly to make up for these frequent hikes, or should I say "Heists."
Taxes are a cruel end to freedom to spend the money you earned on people who party on it and get a month and a half per year paid without working for it, because local or national authorities claim they have to "keep up" with current wages (often selected from the most affluent communities in the entire country), laughing all the way to the bank on the nickel of people who are worried about buying a week's groceries, a dentist/doctor office visit, or paying a repairman to fix house damages caused by a tornado, when they didn't have enough to pay for homeowner's insurance.
We're getting to be a tax poor nation, and there is no mercy from tax collectors if you are over 65 and/or disabled.