Posted on 02/09/2018 7:41:29 AM PST by impetrio1
You've seen the news reports. Sadly, so many on the right share them with glee.
Yes, there are many people leaving blue states because of the high taxes, failing schools, tolerance (if not enabling) of illegal aliens, high crime, etc. The problem is too many believe liberals are not only fleeing for the same reasons, but have finally seen the errors of their ways and are now going to participate in Republican politics and vote accordingly.
Big WRONG.
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leftists are like locusts. They destroy and move on.
In Post 15 minutes you wrote, “We need to block migration from NY, MA, CA, IL, MD, and CT....”
Your statement indicates that you would favor some sort of Government Policy that would block immigration from certain states.
Granted, that is a valid option, and one that could be worth consideration. However, you are proposing a Government Solution to a problem.
As for me, I am suggesting a valid Market Solution in the form of an Property Owner Embargo of Property Sales to people from Blue States.
Now, is it you experience that my Market Solutions or your Government Solutions work better to solve problems?
You are on to something.
If you want your state to remain conservative, why would you sell your property to an out of state liberal?
They are currently beginning to ruin Virginia.
Money !
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Here is an easy cure for the Red States (if Constitutional). Change your tax laws so that for the first X years someone moves into (Red State X) their personal tax rate is the higher of Red State X or their prior state’s tax rate. If Red State X has no personal income tax, then enact one that is .000001%.
“Take northern Virginia for example. Many of the these big government libs used to live in Maryland, and over the years, voted for high taxes, tolerated crime and bad schools, and ignored corruption and malfeasance of their elected officials.”
Take Des Moines, Iowa, perfect example. Look at the voting around Des Moines.
You can’t bet on it; you can’t predict anything in it. The government
says it’s due to the influx of liberals from Red States.
People who don’t have any idea how they are contributing to the demise of the state. Most people in this country are very ignorant of political matters, they just see Presidents on green paper.
No, what has gripped VA is a massive government employee population that lives in Northern VA.
“Money !”
Exactly!
Thus, the opportunity to make money selling a home is more important than the opportunity to keep you community or your state conservative.
California used to have one of the best publik skrewel systems in the country. In fact, it was so good that private schools were merely places where marginal kids were sent. I suppose the decline began at roughly the same time California started to turn blue.
The solution to this problem is a Market Solution, but it does not appear that those impacted what to participate in the Market Solution of Embargoing property sales to people from Blue States.
Remember the bumper sticker from fifty years ago?
DON’T CALIFORNICTE COLORADO!
Well, it has been, and the overflow is ruining New Mexico.
I’m a conservative in Maryland. Would you shine me on if I tried to move to Georgia?
As far as Maryland’s liberals go, they should stay there to suffer the consequences of their own actions, the same as we all do.
A home is an investment as well as a place to live.
If I were wealthy I could insist on selling to a conservative but I am not wealthy.
I am elderly and the profit that I made from selling a big home has been supporting me for about 15 years,so far.I couldn’t afford to be choosy about the buyer’s political persuasion.
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I know most people on here do not like George Will, but he once wrote about liberalism that what is not forbidden is compulsory. That would seem to bear out with Denver dems in this case. Will they mandate that you grow pot and ingest it next?
John Denver’s fault!
I would like to take credit for it, but my first awareness of the premise was from reading the book "Leftism Revisited" in which the Author notes that so many socialist movements, starting with the French Revolution, were supported and funded by the children and wives of the wealthy aristocracy.
I think people who grow up while having to solve problems without money become more grounded in reality.
Libs Flee California???
How about conservatives that
Just Can’t Take IT Anymore!
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