[2ndDivisionVet]

Yeah, they’re moving here:

Homebuilders to begin 1,194-home community near Lake Lewisville (DFW area, Texas)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3280983/posts

[Fungi]

Recycled arguments for the elite rich, the useful idiots, and the ones receiving a government check—may or may not be inclusive of the aforementioned.Fools will be fools.

[KosmicKitty]

Here in Connecticut, we’re dead last in job development among 50 states.

Yeah, liberal policies work out so well if you’re a wealthy democrat politician. For the rest of us, not so much

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

I heard the Maryland tax would apply to 1,500 “super-wealthy” families.

When tax time rolled around, the state received only 500 tax returns for these upper income targeted families.

The other 1,000 said, “Screw you, Maryland” and moved out of state.

[Still Thinking]

So, if income redistribution policies are the solution to shrinking the gap between rich and poor, why do they fail so miserably in the states?

Well, you know, the problems is that there are still free states for the victims to escape to. If only there were wall-to-wall statism, then of course people would stay in those states, and of course with no diminution in economic output. [/liberal mode]

[digger48]

Well, this can’t be true. Liberals have been claiming for a couple weeks now that Hoosier businesses will be fleeing to Illinois because of RFRA after they fled here.

[Don Corleone]

They keep their policies until they run out of other peoples money then.....they just print more and call it ‘quantitative easing’. IOW they never will stop.

[depressed in 06]

The large urban areas should be forced to be their own state. New York, Chicago, Boston, LA-San Francisco, Seattle, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Portland would each have two Senators, Representatives would stay the same, but, they would have to deal with their own finances, not rob the rest of the state to live their profligate ways.

[Paladin2]

Lizzie Warren took an axe Gave the Constitution 40 whacks. When the job was nicely done, she gave the People 41.

[TBP]

Maryland elected a new governor specifically to undo as much of it as possible.

[adorno]

So, if income redistribution policies are the solution to shrinking the gap between rich and poor, why do they fail so miserably in the states?

I beg to differ with the argument implied by that question. And, I have to agree with Elizabeth Warren.

Taxing the rich works wonders for income equality.

When those rich have their taxes increased, they tend to move out of those high-tax areas, thereby leaving a population composed of lower-income. After a while, the population of those areas start seeing income equality, because the rich will have left, and what's left is the lower-wage and lower income people. Thus, they all start looking kind of equal in their poverty, because, once the rich and well-off have left, there won't be anybody creating companies and/or creating jobs.

Income parity will have been reached. And, that's the dream of Warren and all liberals; to have everybody equally poor and dependent on government for most or all of their needs. But, those needs won't be met when there won't be companies and jobs producing income, and income is where taxes come from, and without those taxes, there wont be any programs to depend on by those in the dependent society.

But, unfortunately, the poor also tend to follow the rich, no matter where the rich go, and so, we end up with the liberal messes creating havoc everywhere.

[Amendment10]

The only “social spending” program that the states have ever delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for is the US Mail Service (1.8.7).

So Constitution-ignoring Sen. Elizabeth Warren is another good example why the ill conceived 17th Amendment should have never been ratified, state lawmakers foolishly giving up their voices in Congress by doing so.

On a related note, consider that one consequence of the parents of rich people not making sure that their children are being taught about the federal government’s limited powers is this. Rich people are clueless about dragging misguided lawmakers like Senator Warren in front of the Supreme Court and claiming the Supreme Court case precedent that the feds are prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

The problem is that low-information rich people go home after voting for their favorite federal senators and watch football, oblivious to the major problem that their corrupt senators are working in cahoots with the corrupt House to pass vote-winning bills to establish unconstitutional social spending programs.

The Founding States had expected senators to protect their states by killing unconstitutional House appropriations bills.

The 17th Amendment needs to disappear.

[Darteaus94025]

So, if income redistribution policies are the solution to shrinking the gap between rich and poor, why do they fail so miserably in the states?"

Because, on any number line, 0 is always zero, but the richest 1% keeps getting more. So, my math challenged useful liberals, there will always be increasing income inequality, except in times of war, communist confiscation, or alien invasion - the green kind, not the illegal kind.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

We know liberalism doesn’t work. But it is coming to dominate US government. This is why the die is cast for America’s irreversible decline and fall. Sucks to be living it. I thank God daily that I wash not born later to see the worst of it, but hopefully will be long dead when the worst comes.

[muir_redwoods]

Compounding the issue here in Connecticut is the brain-damaged, village idiot serving as governor.

[ex-snook]

Citizens of a certain age expect to be drafted to fight for all citizens, if needed. Should citizens of a certain income be expected to support all citizens, if needed? Is this a Christian country or what? Are we our brother’s keeper?