Posted on 08/18/2009 8:25:29 AM PDT by Renkluaf
IT’S A sad testimony to the political state of affairs when elected leaders shrug their shoulders and advance a remarkable “no can do’’ attitude toward the reality of population loss in Massachusetts.
When Representative Michael Capuano states he doesn’t “think there’s anyone around who has figured out how to stop the population flow to the Southwest,’’ one has to wonder what is the value of these long-term incumbents. These are our representatives who are “particularly well positioned with their committee assignments,’’ as Representative Richard Neal stated with a curiously disconnected implication. If they’re so well positioned why are they not at least expressing the efforts they are making to turn things around? Why are they not speaking of all that must be done to change our current predicament? The state will probably lose a congressional seat because of the population shift.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Texas is full. Full of Mexicans mainly, but full none the less. Don’t move here.
Build a wall and take away their guns seemed to work for previous regimes.
Not to worry. One of these days people will have to get permission to leave their state.
THE FLOGGINGS WILL CEASE WHEN THE MORALE IMPROVES!
Cuttings taxes would be a good start.....Duh!
California at one time had a tax on your home if you moved out of state.
Move away from the state tax!!!
Consider that line about lawyers in Shakespeare’s Henry VI.
preventing people from moving to another state will be in the name of health care...
Do what the IDIOTS in NJ do and charge an “exit Tax” when people move out.I kid you not...it is true! I swear, this state sucks SO MUCH!
Boo Hoo.
Mass. workers file for workman’s Comp then move to Georgia!
| Sadly, the people and leaders in Mass will NEVER take this advice.
Yup....that whole health care bill needs to be stopped. If they get any part of it, it will grow in time.
Executions will continue until morale improves.
(feel free to avail yourselves of the Death Committee program...death taxes help stimulate the ecconomy too.)
"How can we keep people from leaving?"
and not:
"How can we get them to want to stay?".
The answer to the question is in the article but they are too blind by their socialism to see.
First they have to admit socialism can only work at the point of a gun. If you give people any option at all, they will leave (think the boat people of Cuba).
Socialism is taking from a producer to give to a taker. What this does is create more takers, and fewer producers.
Unless they plan on building a “Berlin Wall” they will continue to lose the producers. Sooner or later the state will collaspe upon itself (almost like what is happening in California).
FDR and Johnson has a lot to answer for. FDR began the welfare state and Johnson expanded it.
After 40 years isn’t it time to work that the “war on poverty” is a failure?
Let’s hope they don’t try to keep people there the way Cuba does!
But I believe the idea of some kind of “exit tax” will become popular with governmental officials, if it has not been tried already.
Given the attitude of many serving in government towards their constituents, I’m sure it will be attempted as the next step.
Don’t come to Arizona, we’ve got snakes, scorpions, Californians and other problems of our own.
Hell no....not in Georgia! We don’t need them and their predisposition to voting in any goddam tax just because it’s for the children, homeless, needy, etc......stay where you are!
Areas of this country are so screwed up by liberals that they are likely to start building walls to keep people from leaving than they are to keep illegals out.
1) Liberals run for office and promise faux compassion and free stuff to the electorate at the expense of the productive members of society.
2) Liberals get elected to the big city or state and set up their machine.
3) Liberals work to demonstrate more compassion than anyone else by confiscating other people's industry and giving it to the slackers.
4) The big city/state begins to collapse under the sheer weight of liberal policies, leaving death, destruction and brokenness in its wake.
5) Conservatives flee first to other locations. When things really start to deteriorate (as the historically always do) the limousine liberals all start to abandon the area as well. Only the weak are left awaiting their next government handout.
6) The limousine liberals now fan out to the infect the conservative areas to begin the cycle all over again. (See Idaho, Montana, etc.)
In New Mexico, we used to hate Texans, until the Californians showed up.
I lived in MA for 12 years and it is for a reason the people there are known the world over as “Massholes”
If then morons who are in charge would quit running the State like Communists there is the chance people would at least think about staying.
Many of the people leaving can’t seem to put two and two together either.
Way too many of them run away from the mess they helped make but don’t change their voting habits and set their new home on the path to blue-state ruin.
No sh** Sherlock. Funny how it takes a talk-radio exec to hit the nail on the head, because none of the politicians would reach such a conclusion. Taxes, over-priced housing, utilities, more taxes, incredible corruption (the last 3 Speakers had to resign because of indictments), nanny-statism, PC mentality, lackadaisical judges, some more taxes, Corporate/Capitalist hatred from all corners, new levees and taxes on taxes.... And the Beacon Hill Brigands sees these as reasons to STAY.
I left for work, and my folks have begged me to return, I finally had to tell them I'll only visit, but will never live in the Bay State the rest of my days.
They're actually not moving to Florida, which had a net population loss last year. Perhaps the Boston Globe should try things like research, which might lead them to conclude that all the stupid, liberal positions that they advocated are the primary reasons causes of the exodus.
Prohibitive taxes, decades of rule by the looney left...nope, just can’t understand the desire to leave such a workers paradise!
See point #6.
People vote with
their ballots,
their dollars,
and finally,
their feet.
(...Rome fell because of taxes, better the barbarian you don’t know, than the tax collector you DO know.)
and not:
"How can we get them to want to stay?".
The state of North Dakota had/has this same mentality.
When I was there in the 80s they were bleeding their college graduates due to the lack of decent paying jobs and the severe winters.
The only thing they could come up with was to advance a idea to make all graduates of the ND system who received even a penny of aid stay for at least four or five years.
They never implemented this because of that"pesky" Constitution.
Build a wall - It worked so well in E. Germany.
Don’t forget Lurch.
In NJ, homeowners who move out the state have to pay $10,000. And that money is taken right out of the house closing proceeds.
“Don’t come to Arizona, we’ve got snakes, scorpions...”
Yes, I can confirm the scorpion infestation...I’ve killed 18 over the last week. 14 outside and 4 in the house. Friends around the Valley report the same thing...not sure what’s up with the current “surge.”
#6 are the locusts maybe this is what is meant in the bible!
They’re not coming to Connecticut!
liberals/leftist promise free stuff on the backs of producing taxpayers.
producing taxpayers leave which leaves only non producers represented by a leftist stuggling to keep power.
Of course this often means the representation shifts too.
Just look at the “solid south”. Jimmy Carter would not have a prayer of being elected in 2000+. People moved AWAY from oppressive New England taxation and the result? ecconomic prosperity.
People vote with
their ballots,
their dollars,
their feet,
and finally,
Their cartridge box
That seems like an equal protection issue.
FL had an impact fee for people who registered cars from out of state.
(not to mention first amendment association issue)
The state will probably lose a congressional seat because of the population shift.
It's all about government with those scumbags.
oops forgot to state FL’s out of state impact fee was struck down and unconstitutional.
an “exit” tax seems equally wrong.
How does NJ know you're leaving the state after you sell? Rent something cheap for a few months and then leave. Or just say you are. I'd prefer to waste less money renting unused rental property than pay an exit tax.
Someone suggested in the comments section a 50% real estate tax on people who wanted to move.
I understand the Berlin Wall is available.
With all due respect, RofT, I’m getting the heck out of Mass as fast as I can — and I’m coming to Texas!
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