Two things we can observe about the author and the piece:

1. He's a professor of finance at a podunk school

2. He writes for Newsmax

To write an article that discusses only politics and yet is concerned about the politics influencing the health policies of the states that are largest contributors to the national treasury explains his meager intellectual standing: He's just a hack looking for another source of income.

So, readers/commenters beware: this will be my only read/comment on this outlet from the Newsmax sewer. Yours should be, too.