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rurallib

(63,220 posts)
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 01:45 PM Nov 2017

IOWA NOW DEAD LAST IN GDP GROWTH UNDER ALL-REPUBLICAN CONTROL

https://iowastartingline.com/2017/11/22/iowa-now-dead-last-gdp-growth-republican-control/

Very bad news this week for both Governor Kim Reynolds and the Republican-controlled Iowa Legislature. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported the second quarter economic growth by state (GDP). Iowa’s economic growth was a negative .7%, dead last among all 50 states. Of the 50 states, 48 had positive growth in this period. Only Iowa (-.7%) and South Dakota (-.3%) had a negative growth rate.

While one quarter’s performance doesn’t predict future growth, it’s a huge embarrassment for the Iowa Republican Party. The Republican Governor and the GOP control majorities in both branches of the Legislature and have driven Iowa’s economy to last place in the nation. They can’t blame the Democrats for this economic disaster.

This latest economic data simply confirms what most Iowans already know. Republicans’ mismanagement of state government has led Iowa to a budget train wreck. Under their management they have taken a budget surplus of nearly $1 billion in 2013 to a budget deficit this past year. In the Reynolds regime’s struggle to balance the state budget this past year, they slashed spending by $118 million and ended up borrowing another $144 million to end the budget year. One wonders if former Governor Terry Branstad didn’t foresee the budget mess he and Reynolds were creating and decided to abandon ship by taking the China gig.

The new legislative session begins in January and the state budget starts out in a big hole. Reynolds is obligated to begin to pay back the $144 million borrowed in 2017. In addition, the cuts they made in 2017 have left many state departments and agencies struggling with the previous cuts.


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IOWA NOW DEAD LAST IN GDP GROWTH UNDER ALL-REPUBLICAN CONTROL (Original Post) rurallib Nov 2017 OP
Recommended. More proof of what supply side tax cuts accomplish. guillaumeb Nov 2017 #1
Others have put it better (like Richard Wolff) but essentially... bagelsforbreakfast Nov 2017 #2
We're #50! We're #50! We're #50! progressoid Nov 2017 #3

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)
1. Recommended. More proof of what supply side tax cuts accomplish.
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 01:50 PM
Nov 2017

The rich get even richer, the bottom 95% suffer.

 

bagelsforbreakfast

(1,427 posts)
2. Others have put it better (like Richard Wolff) but essentially...
Wed Nov 22, 2017, 02:14 PM
Nov 2017

it seems to be a cycle -
Republicans cut taxes (for the rich)
State or Country takes in less for vital services
Citizen still demand vital services (esp Rich Republicans)
So where do they get the money?

THEY BORROW

creating a deficit

Which they explain will miraculously disappear via TRICKLE-DOWN surge

Which never happens

So THEY BLAME WASTEFUL DEMOCRATS

Cut taxes for the RICH again

and so on - WASH & REPEAT

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