By Steven Malanga, includes “… how likely is it that the money for this ambitious—indeed, unprecedented—agenda will be well spent? Not very likely, suggests analysis by the financial website WalletHub. The study measures how much states take in from taxes and how they rank on dozens of different measures of public services … Of the top-ten states ranked on overall return on taxes, seven are low-tax places. … A federal study, for instance, found that a single unit of ‘affordable’ housing in California costs on average $750,000—the highest rate in the country. ”