Anonymous wrote:
Nothing in the US is remotely socialist. I know, I lived in a socialist country.

But high taxes and social safety nets are the next best thing. I much prefer to live in MoCo than NoVa, for this reason.

Is that you Marc?

Nothing in the US is remotely socialist. I know, I lived in a socialist country.

But high taxes and social safety nets are the next best thing. I much prefer to live in MoCo than NoVa, for this reason.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Howard County is wealthy, but Montgomery County is declining, mainly because of its socialist policies. PG is PG. Western MD and most of the Eastern Shore is poor. And…Baltimore?

Anyways, I don’t get how MD is always first in household income. How does it beat out Massachusetts, Connecticut, and California. Also some of the oil states like Texas and Alaska have a lot of wealth. I guess the rural counties in Virginia drag down the average wealth/income since Northern Virginia and the Richmond area are very rich.

It's because of the socialism.

Per US News & World Report, Maryland is also #1 in health care quality (more socialism, I assume

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/maryland

Anonymous wrote:Eastern shore is not poor

PG was the wealthiest majority black community in the US until Charles county surpassed them so now we have the top 2.

Moco is not on a decline.

Howard and Frederick are wealthy.

Are you new here.

Talbot County on the eastern shore has high pockets of wealth. Worcester County on the eastern shore has pockets of wealth. The rest of the eastern shore is poor: Dorcester, Wicomico,
and Somerset Counties particularly.

Eastern shore is not poor

PG was the wealthiest majority black community in the US until Charles county surpassed them so now we have the top 2.

Moco is not on a decline.

Howard and Frederick are wealthy.

Are you new here.

I heard a “Do business in Montgomery County” ad on the radio the other day and I chuckled a bit. But maybe they are finally realizing what’s up.

Anonymous wrote:Howard County is wealthy, but Montgomery County is declining, mainly because of its socialist policies. PG is PG. Western MD and most of the Eastern Shore is poor. And…Baltimore?

Anyways, I don’t get how MD is always first in household income. How does it beat out Massachusetts, Connecticut, and California. Also some of the oil states like Texas and Alaska have a lot of wealth. I guess the rural counties in Virginia drag down the average wealth/income since Northern Virginia and the Richmond area are very rich.

Providing source of your claim is always helpful. Where did you get that info?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Howard County is wealthy, but Montgomery County is declining, mainly because of its socialist policies. PG is PG. Western MD and most of the Eastern Shore is poor. And…Baltimore?

Anyways, I don’t get how MD is always first in household income. How does it beat out Massachusetts, Connecticut, and California. Also some of the oil states like Texas and Alaska have a lot of wealth. I guess the rural counties in Virginia drag down the average wealth/income since Northern Virginia and the Richmond area are very rich.

It's because of the socialism.

Yep! Just like Russia and Cuba and Venezuela…oh, wait a minute. Those are poor, struggling countries with oppressed populations.

Anonymous wrote:Howard County is wealthy, but Montgomery County is declining, mainly because of its socialist policies. PG is PG. Western MD and most of the Eastern Shore is poor. And…Baltimore?

Anyways, I don’t get how MD is always first in household income. How does it beat out Massachusetts, Connecticut, and California. Also some of the oil states like Texas and Alaska have a lot of wealth. I guess the rural counties in Virginia drag down the average wealth/income since Northern Virginia and the Richmond area are very rich.

It's because of the socialism.

Wealth =/ income

Good measures of wealth are median home price & average private school tuition costs.

Don't underestimate how much poverty exists in other states.

Anonymous wrote:Howard County is wealthy, but Montgomery County is declining, mainly because of its socialist policies. PG is PG. Western MD and most of the Eastern Shore is poor. And…Baltimore?

Anyways, I don’t get how MD is always first in household income. How does it beat out Massachusetts, Connecticut, and California. Also some of the oil states like Texas and Alaska have a lot of wealth. I guess the rural counties in Virginia drag down the average wealth/income since Northern Virginia and the Richmond area are very rich.

Maryland is not the "richest" state (no matter what they misnamed list you're looking at says), it's the highest income state. Income does not equal wealth. (But there is no easy survey of overall wealth.) Truly wealthy show little or no income. Texas, to use your example, has some incredibly wealthy people who own oil fields and companies but who probably report next to no annual income, some high income people at the high echelons of those companies, and many, many, many more people working on oilfields who, though better compensated than some manual labor, are not winning any competitions. Maryland has far more upper-income-but-not-wealthy earners working at biotech companies, law firms, for the government, etc.

OP how much time do you spend thinking about state comparisons because you should spend 98% less time.

It's tiny and includes the DC area. If it was the size of VA or PA, it would be average.

Howard County is wealthy, but Montgomery County is declining, mainly because of its socialist policies. PG is PG. Western MD and most of the Eastern Shore is poor. And…Baltimore?

Anyways, I don’t get how MD is always first in household income. How does it beat out Massachusetts, Connecticut, and California. Also some of the oil states like Texas and Alaska have a lot of wealth. I guess the rural counties in Virginia drag down the average wealth/income since Northern Virginia and the Richmond area are very rich.