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So are these red people upping the Congressional delegations of the red states, or blue people making the red states bluer?
"New England states will face a shortage of educated young workers ..."
Not just will, but are now, and have been leaving for decades.
The hard working, smart, trained...can leave.
The young do leave.
Everyone in New England, who should know about such things, has known about this trend for years and years as the article reports...and there's nothing anyone can do about it...unless they wish to. Every state in New England ,save NH, makes its terribly expensive to do business. That's the problem. And as we all know, New England is far above such mundane things as accommodating business. They are there to TAX business, not make it productive.
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Memo to ALL levels of government, EVERYWHERE:
First Law of Political Economics: If you tax it, you get less of it. If you subsidize it you get more of it.
Refusal to accept this simple truth will be the proximate cause of the collapse of any political entity; no matter how "great" its glory or empire may have been.
Lawns will look great. Businesses will move out or die.
Phew! For a minute there, I thought the headline was talking about the Patriots.
I have a good friend , 27, who is fairly liberal, but moved to Boston for a job two years ago. He hates it. Says the cost of living is outrageous. Is actively sending out resumes to Atlanta, Nashville, and all over the Florida panhandle.
Simple. New England is very liberal/progressive/socialist (pick one) The basic dogma of communism is take money from those who have it because they worked hard or are intelligent and give it to those who don't work hard or are not intelligent.
So why would intelligent hard-working people want to stay in a socialist paradist?
My parents are in their late fifties, and recently moved to Charlotte because the taxes in Maine were killing them. They and I are the first persons on either side of the family (with the exception of my paternal grandmother, who came down from Canada) to live outside Maine since before the Revolution. Some of us have been there since the French settlers were kicked out of Nova Scotia by the Brits.
My folks' house in Charlotte is a couple of hundred square feet smaller than the one in Maine. It cost a lot less, and the taxes are less than a third as much, even though this house is in the inner ring of suburbs and the house in Maine was 45 minutes out from Portland.
In the 20th century -- not so long ago -- those textile mills, ship yards and machine shops wouldn't pay either, and the region turned towards electronics, computers, and finance. In a few decades New England went from being an economic basket case to something of a showplace. So this is the latest chapter.
Of course it's more of a man-made problem now, not nature's fault. And taxes have a lot to do with it. Also, you can outsource just about anything now. A few decades ago we believed that the computers designed by New Englanders would still be built outside Boston -- even though the handwriting was on the wall even then. Now we see that a company doesn't have to have build or design anything in a particular location.
And New England never had much of a "hinterland" in the way that other regions did. That meant that things could go wrong in the large cities. Taxes and expenses could increase. Work habits might slacken. Urbanites would be bitten by this or that craze. But there'd always be someone from the backwoods to set things straight: either by outvoting the city folk at the polls or by moving into the city and taking up work. That doesn't happen here as much as in other parts of the country.
But I'm not so sure these problems are New England's alone. A lot of the country's troubles and weaknesses are concentrated here, but they're not unique to the region.
More like harder to tax the intellectuals to pay for their bloated social spending...
Despite what the MSM reports, younger people lean conservative. These are the Xers and Generation Reagan kids, who survived the latch-key & divorce era from their selfish parents. They're moving to the South and West, low-tax states to build strong families.
Socialism does not work.
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