“If the United States political split was more geographically represented, we would have already split up.”
The oddest thing in the US is that the areas with the highest taxes consistently vote Democrat. I understand those areas are filled with permanent parasites voting for the hand that feeds (or at least the government hand that moves assets from the hands that make to their hands that take), but the fact is wealthy liberals in high cost, high tax area are much more susceptible to the Alternative Minimum Tax (which wipes out deductions) on top of the high sales, state income and property taxes they already pay.
Prove to me liberals PAY tax.
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D). Washington DC congressional rep in perpetuity.
From 1981-82, Norton served as a fellow at the Urban Institute. The following year, she was hired as a law professor at Georgetown University, a post she has held ever since.
In 1990 the District of Columbia’s non-voting Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives, Walter Fauntroy, resigned to run (unsuccessfully) for city mayor. Norton narrowly won the Democratic primary race to replace Fauntroy, and then won the Delegate seat in the general election by a wide margin. She has been re-elected every two years since then, always by wide margins.
During Norton’s 1990 political campaign, it came to light that she and her husband had paid no D.C. income taxes since 1981.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1955
This story “accidentally” broke through the MSM/propaganda front . Even if the Left is not paying taxes at this point, I’d bet somebody is preparing each a “return”
Not odd, but rather causal; like the houses with the most termites having the highest number of structural problems. They have the highest taxes precisely because they are such committed commies.
The wealthy either leave or lose their wealth. Those areas then become blighted socialist hell holes that have forgotten where and how the original wealth was created.
Detroit is their model. Parasites killing the host.