For Tax & Spend Democrats, Chickens Flee Coop
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Except for Liberals, this shouldn’t be of any big surprise, and yet Democrats are still raising taxes and people are still fleeing for places with more reasonable tax rates. That’s the thing… the people who do pay taxes can afford to leave, and do:
New Yorkers are fleeing the state and city in alarming numbers — and costing a fortune in lost tax dollars, a new study shows.
More than 1.5 million state residents left for other parts of the United States from 2000 to 2008, according to the report from the Empire Center for New York State Policy. It was the biggest out-of-state migration in the country.
The vast majority of the migrants, 1.1 million, were former residents of New York City — meaning one out of seven city taxpayers moved out.
“The Empire State is being drained of an invaluable resource — people,” the report said.
Why Democrats think this result will not happen wherever they raise taxes is beyond me. Granted, it’s more difficult for people to leave the country than to leave a state but this isn’t true with companies.
Cut taxes, cut spending, encourage growth!
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9:14 AM
it’s why i left pennsylvania.
well that, and i like the oppurtunity to food shop and buy booze at the same time.
4:47 PM
Spending money you don’t have because you don’t have the political guts to cut programs isn’t basic business sense.
8:13 AM
I would love to have the infrastructure to enable to me to get to a multimillion dollar mansion in the mountains with a helicopter pad, but unfortunately I can’t afford it. The cost of building infrastructure is typically a very small piece of the tax pie, and it is the easiest public expenditure to plan for and tax accordingly. Liberals always throw out the line, “You don’t like taxes, but you like roads.” Stupid in my opinion. Where I live they tax gasoline to build roads. This is good business sense, the people who use the roads (except of course the holier hybrid drivers) pay for them. This is a tax I can support. You look at California, Michigan, New York, and any other bankrupt basket case state in the country, and they are usually governed by democrats, and their states are bankrupt because of out of control spending on social programs. The problem with these entitlements is that the people who use them don’t pay for them. This causes the people who do pay for them to leave. This would be like starting a business where customers come pay you money, and you give a good or service to someone else. This is stupid business sense, and explains whey there are no businesses (except maybe insurance) that follow this model (which probably is why government wants to take over insurance so badly)
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8:37 AM
Actually there is a movement afoot to tax hybrid drivers more because they use more road per mile than non-hybrid drivers:
http://www.madison.com/wsj/mad/top/447842
So you really can’t win!
5:30 PM
Having grown up in the New York and New Jersey metropolitan areas I can tell you the thought process is different. The Democrate’s party machine rules both states; the only wild card are the independents.
On a recent Hannity forum with pollster Frank Luntz a young women who identified herself as an independent was asked about the high taxes and entitlement programs. She replied,if we have the tax money to spend then we should spend it on entitlements. I doubt she was an independent, if she was then she must be brain dead or have a severe metabolic disorder effecting her though process.I rest my case.
7:45 PM
My experience with having lived in the NE is there is a lot of corruption in the way money is spent.