How's Your State Performing?

Not too long ago I received an email from WalletHub with a couple of survey results.

The first listed 2017’s states with the best and worst taxpayer ROI.

The best ten are:

1 - New Hampshire
2 - South Dakota
3 - Florida
4 - Virginia
5 - Alaska
6 - Colorado
7 - Utah
8 - Missouri
9 - Texas
10 - Nebraska

And the worst ten are:

40 - West Virginia
41 - Vermont
42 - Nevada
43 - Wyoming
44 - Delaware
45 - Arkansas
46 - New York
47 - California
48 - New Mexico
49 - Hawaii
50 - North Dakota

I was pleased with these results since my state (Colorado) was in the top ten. I guess I'm getting a good bang-for-my-buck tax-wise.

They also sent me a list of 2017’s most and least financially literate states.

The best ten are:

1 - New Hampshire
2 - Minnesota
3 - North Dakota
4 - Maine
5 - Virginia
6 - Maryland
7 - New Jersey
8 - Illinois
9 - Colorado
10 - Montana

And the worst ten are:

41 - Arkansas
42 - Nevada
43 - Tennessee
44 - New Mexico
45 - Alaska
46 - Oklahoma
47 - Mississippi
48 - Kentucky
49 - Rhode Island
50 - District of Columbia
51 - Louisiana

Some thoughts on this:

• My state is again in the top ten! Woo hoo!
• New Hampshire heads both top ten lists. Those people must have their act together!
• Virginia is also in the top ten for both.
• Arkansas, Nevada, and New Mexico were on both worst ten lists. Ugh.
• Alaska and North Dakota had split results -- once on the best ten and once on the worst ten.

Those are my thoughts and how my state performed. How did yours do?

Comments

[Mrs. Picky Pincher]

With all of the damn construction happening in Texas, I fully believe that we're getting some ROI on our tax dollars. Systems like education, for example, are a different story, but everyone has room to grow I suppose.