Posted on 11/03/2009 11:22:37 AM PST by foutsc
An old bull and his young son stood atop a hillock, looking down upon a herd of cattle.
"C'mon dad!" cried the young bull, "let's run down there and get us a cow!"
"No son," rumbled the old bull, "let's stroll down and get them all."
New Yorkers are fleeing the state, especially New York 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.
It all adds up to staggering loss in taxable income. During 2006-2007, the "migration flow" out of New York to other states amounted to a loss of $4.3 billion
They don’t want to be the majority. They want to be in the tyranny of the minority. In fact, aren’t all tyrannies in some ways tyrannies of the minority?
Sic semper tyrannis.
The next time you’re in a grocery store, take pictures of the shelves stocked with food, because in a few years, no one will believe you when you tell them how it used to be.
“They don’t want to be the majority. They want to be in the tyranny of the minority...”
Reminds me of the observation about liberals...they’d rather rule in hell than serve in heaven...
I like that!
When I got back from Haiti, the first time I walked into a grocery store I was in awe. The few grocery stores in Haiti charged $28 for a box of cereal in a country where the mean income was around $19 a year. None of the natives could shop at the stores of course. The street markets would have a few tables with several week old apples and crabs that had been sitting out in the Haitian sun for a day or two.
I walked into the produce section of our local supermarket and said, “We are SO spoiled.” There was excess beyond what anyone could possibly eat.
The War On Poverty has been a trillion dollar failure.
PS The banking crisis was an inside job. Barney Frank should be questioned for his role in the corruption.
“I walked into the produce section of our local supermarket and said, “We are SO spoiled.” There was excess beyond what anyone could possibly eat.”
And remember that this is the ‘broken’ system that the Democrats are going to fix.
And they will get their wish.....
The problem is that these economic refugees move to red states and start the tax tax tax cycle all over again.
Exactly. (See: Effet of Maryland transplants on Northern Virginia.)
You'd think they'd learn what screwed up their former home and not try to do the same thing all over again...
Simple solution in NY - raise taxes on those who remain... There, fixed it.
That's from Paradise Lost. Upon being cast into Hell, Satan begins to set up his kingdom:
The mind is its own place, and in it selfFor Calvinist Milton, Hell had a strange resemblence to the Vatican.
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. [ 255 ]
What matter where, if I be still the same,
And what I should be, all but less then he
Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least
We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: [ 260 ]
Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.
No, Barney should be strung up by his misdirected male organs for his role in the corruption.
If only these people could toss aside their idiotic liberal feeeeeeeelings when they move, all would be OK.
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