Scott Bessent says leave blue states to save $25 a month #shorts

Scott Bessant is telling people to uproot their lives for $25, move out of blue states and go to red states. This is one of my favorite clips of the week. I’m going to explain this. Okay, here is Bessant with an idea. What do you do about your personal inflation rate? Here is his his idea. Chris, I can tell you the Council on Economic Advisors has a study. You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher and that is because they they don’t deregulate. They keep prices up. Energy is higher. Just look at how satisfied he looked. There’s this moment where there’s this smirk on his face right here. This smirk, this is the smirk of a guy who thinks he’s just done a big boy. He thinks he just found a really clever one. Now, here’s the thing. Um, I looked for the data. Bessant says inflation is half a point higher in blue states than in red states. I looked for that information. I couldn’t find it. I I I don’t know whether that’s true. But let’s imagine for a moment that Bessant is right. Just to show you how weak this idiotic argument is. Suppose that a household spends 60 grand a year on everything. Okay? Housing, food, gas, every just let’s pick it $60,000 a year. Okay? A 0.5 percentage point higher inflation rate means for example if in the red states inflation is 3%. In the blue states it’s 3.5%. Okay that’s like $300 a year. That’s like $25 a month. Okay. So what what he’s basically saying is in the blue states your cost of living will go up by $25 a month more than it will go up in the red states. He is saying to families solve your inflation problem by moving from a blue state to a red state. Now aside from losing out on that savings just because of what it costs to move, right? Like ridiculous. Forget about that. Even what he’s ignoring is that people make way more money in the blue states. Blue states are well above the national median income.

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Original show date November 25, 2025

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49 comments

  2. Scotty doesn’t know, if you look at education blue states generally rank higher because you are paying more. However this smug moron does not understand economics if people moved en masse to red states then the cost of living would go up in that state/area meaning it is cheaper in the red states because no one wants to live there. Maybe someone can explain supply and demand to Scotty.

  3. What an evil Cruela de vil. No this is not true. I have viewed most states and the states that are red are poor and their wages are very low too and the blue states have a 3x higher minimum wage. Hello . Think

  11. Youll save more on housing in red states for sure, but if a bunch of families did move to red, guess what would happen to the price of housing? Ask Nevada!

  21. I suffer from this horrible thing called weather in a blue state. Maybe by moving to a red state, I will not have this weather problem anymore!

  23. Hey bessent, the entire country is getting hit by inflation and higher costs.

    Have you tried to just moving?
    Brilliant, all the energy of ' your job doesn't pay enough, just get another job'

  28. A hedge fund company that Scott Bessant was managing did not lose that amount of money, but he did lose 90% of the investors money in the hedge fund. It went from five .1 billion. Two 500 million that’s how much he lost for his investors.

  30. I would pay a lot more than that to live in a blue state. I live in Texas and inflation is rampant. Way higher than 3 percent. Those people are full of overpriced baloney.

  31. First I must say: Scott Bessent is a total scum bag! He is lying, but why would you move to a red state for 1/2 a percent when they have the worst education systems, worse healthcare and more crime in their cities!!! And they are on welfare because blue states support them and they are not even grateful!!!

  42. Bessent is an absurdity of a human. He speaks robotically with the most inane and puerile ideas. I am flabbergasted that he has ever been successful at anything.

  47. The people who actually move from a blue to a red state, might increase average income in both the blue and the red state.

  49. This scott guy needs to be investigated too! For thus guy to lie on national television without blinking, he's got to skeletons in his history.

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