>I didn't make any arguments in support of anything Republican.
The article you linked is written by a prominent Republican blogger. You have to be pretty right wing to think its a good piece.
>GDP is distributed, this is why PPP is a much more reasonable metric.
Your original claim was that Republican run states "have Higher economic growth" among other things, which is just not true, because economic growth by definition implies more money being traded, which is GDP. Now that you realize you are wrong, you start running to derivative metrics like PPP, without doing the due diligence of proving how PPP is actually economic growth.
You also mentioned higher population growth, which is a false narrative (see below), lower state debt, which you have to go in depth to prove how thats actually good, and lower unemployment, which is not only not generally true, but again, you have to prove that unemployment is bad (as opposed to having people between jobs relying on social safety nets due to higher GDP, which creates favorable conditions for economy as history shows)
> The Texas economy is growing because it's cheap to live there at the same quality of life that it's expensive to live in other states, so people move to Texas because they can't afford to live in other states
If you are actually going to respond, please take the time to a) read what I wrote previously, and b) think what you are typing. The population of Cali is currently growing. It can't grow without all sectors down to the lower income service workers also willing to stay in Cali.
The people that move are a) firstly in a financial position to move, which requires funds, and b) moving to optimize salary vs cost of living. But they are also not moving to deep red areas.
>If people in the US had strong critical thinking skills we wouldn't be stuck with first past the post elections causing us a false dichotomy between two shitty right-wing parties that are both run for the benefit of wealthy elites
Funny you mention strong thinking skills, but equivocating what Trump is doing now to anything the Democrats ever did in the past decade is quite funny. Mentally this is pretty much the Republican cope, you can never admit that your side is horrible, you basically have to say "Democrats are just as bad" and point to some obscure things and make up fantastical projections to try to match what Republicans are doing.
>You clearly didn't read and understand what I wrote
You don't understand it either. You first posted an article that has horrible stats, then you use PPP to prove your point because GDP doesn't fit the narrative. I doubt you understand what PPP is. Because if you did, you realize that PPP is a very derivative measure, and its used to compare economies across countries, not states that often have very intertwined economies with lots of market forces (i.e same companies in every state controlling prices nation wide).
>You somehow bucketed me into the "Republican" bucket
You are not fooling anyone anymore. Centrist or libertarian = republican.
> The article you linked is written by a prominent Republican blogger. You have to be pretty right wing to think its a good piece.
My dude, you have me confused with someone else. I didn't link any article in this subthread.
> Your original claim was that Republican run states "have Higher economic growth" among other things
I never made that claim. I made the claim that PPP is a better quality of life metric than GDP when comparing between regions/economies, because of wealth and income inequality. Which it is. In fact, nothing I've said has been disproven by anything you've responded with, you are just trying to bucket me because you have mistaken me for someone else and decided to apply the most uncharitable strawman lens to my entire commentary.
> but equivocating what Trump is doing now to anything the Democrats ever did
It's super rich to spend hours deprogramming my Boomer father from being a Trump supporter to come online and get accused of being a Trump supporter by people too dumb to read what I actually wrote.
> You are not fooling anyone anymore. Centrist or libertarian = republican.
You continue to fail to have any reading comprehension, inappropriately bucketing me as a Republican, which is frankly insulting. Be better. I'm done with you.
The article you linked is written by a prominent Republican blogger. You have to be pretty right wing to think its a good piece.
>GDP is distributed, this is why PPP is a much more reasonable metric.
Your original claim was that Republican run states "have Higher economic growth" among other things, which is just not true, because economic growth by definition implies more money being traded, which is GDP. Now that you realize you are wrong, you start running to derivative metrics like PPP, without doing the due diligence of proving how PPP is actually economic growth.
You also mentioned higher population growth, which is a false narrative (see below), lower state debt, which you have to go in depth to prove how thats actually good, and lower unemployment, which is not only not generally true, but again, you have to prove that unemployment is bad (as opposed to having people between jobs relying on social safety nets due to higher GDP, which creates favorable conditions for economy as history shows)
> The Texas economy is growing because it's cheap to live there at the same quality of life that it's expensive to live in other states, so people move to Texas because they can't afford to live in other states
If you are actually going to respond, please take the time to a) read what I wrote previously, and b) think what you are typing. The population of Cali is currently growing. It can't grow without all sectors down to the lower income service workers also willing to stay in Cali.
The people that move are a) firstly in a financial position to move, which requires funds, and b) moving to optimize salary vs cost of living. But they are also not moving to deep red areas.
>If people in the US had strong critical thinking skills we wouldn't be stuck with first past the post elections causing us a false dichotomy between two shitty right-wing parties that are both run for the benefit of wealthy elites
Funny you mention strong thinking skills, but equivocating what Trump is doing now to anything the Democrats ever did in the past decade is quite funny. Mentally this is pretty much the Republican cope, you can never admit that your side is horrible, you basically have to say "Democrats are just as bad" and point to some obscure things and make up fantastical projections to try to match what Republicans are doing.
>You clearly didn't read and understand what I wrote
You don't understand it either. You first posted an article that has horrible stats, then you use PPP to prove your point because GDP doesn't fit the narrative. I doubt you understand what PPP is. Because if you did, you realize that PPP is a very derivative measure, and its used to compare economies across countries, not states that often have very intertwined economies with lots of market forces (i.e same companies in every state controlling prices nation wide).
>You somehow bucketed me into the "Republican" bucket
You are not fooling anyone anymore. Centrist or libertarian = republican.