Posted on 09/30/2014 6:24:54 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The Northeast, once the nation’s political engine that produced presidents, House speakers and Senate giants including the late Edward M. Kennedy, is losing clout in Washington as citizens flee the high-tax region, according to experts worried about the trend.
The Census Bureau reports that population growth has shifted to the South and the result is that the 11 states that make up the Northeast are being bled dry of representation in Washington.
Critics blame rising taxes in states such as Massachusetts and Connecticut for limiting population growth in the Northeast to just 15 percent from 1983 to 2013, while the rest of the nation grew more than 41 percent.
This result is one of the most dramatic demographic shifts in American history. This migration is shifting the power center of America right before our very eyes. The movement isn’t random or even about weather or resources. Economic freedom is the magnet and states ignore this force at their own peril,” said the report.
While the states from Pennsylvania to Maine had 141 House members in 1950, they are down to 85 today, a drop of some 40 percent.
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New Jersey already has an exit tax.
To paraphrase the late JFK musing abut Joe McCarthy, I think you're on to something.
That is the problem, they flee the results of the policies they voted for then vote to impose them on the innocent residents of the state they fled to.
Like locusts, they foul the land they are on, then move on to fertile states.
Didn’t Dick Durbin introduce some kind of national tax to equalize the burden on those seaking lower tax states?
The tax refugees still vote for the crap they left.
COME ON DOWN. . . . .
Nothin’ but trouble. Just ask Robert E. Lee. :-)
even now many of them still can’t get it into their heads that they are not welcome, trouble is that they have moved on mass and have no intention to recognize why their old state is a screwed up one.
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