Posted on 12/27/2010 9:54:13 AM PST by Nachum
The Lone Star State is scooping up more than just our congressional seats -- some $846 million in personal income shifted from New York to Texas in an eight-year period during the last decade, according to an analysis of IRS tax returns.
Texas, which has no state or local income taxes and an enviably low cost of living, has been steadily poaching New Yorkers since the '90s, according to data from the Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan tax research organization based in Washington.
From 2000 to 2008, more than $846 million in personal income moved from New York to Texas -- with more than $212 million leaving in 2006 and '07.
New York lost an estimated $38.4 billion in personal income to other states in that same time period, while Texas gained roughly $12.2 billion from migration.
Texas was the big winner in the 2010 Census, which was announced last week. It picked up four House seats, more than any other state.
The fading Empire State came up short and lost two seats thanks to its sluggish population growth of 2.1 percent, compared with the national average of 9.7 percent.
"People aren't moving down to those Sunbelt states for the weather," said Kenneth Adams, president and CEO of the Business Council of New York State.
"It's three things: taxes, taxes and taxes."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Exactly. Just like they did in North Carolina.
Hey, they're good for killing the tarantulas that nest in your hat.
If you live in Houston I can tell you about a great NY pizza place on West Gray.
“Yes, miniature compared to northern deer”
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Texans are allowed to hunt with a proper weapon for killing Deer. It’s called a rifle. Thus, our Deer have learned to run fast and can’t put on much fat remaining small.
This is what makes Austin the place I moved FROM in Texas.
And for all the people thinking of coming to Texas, Please don’t come if you are a liberal or a RINO, we have plenty of those.
Well, I’ll give ya three guesses where I’ll put my boots if I can’t wear ‘em.
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Not all New Yorkers are like this.
That's just an adaptation to the lower average temps in the north. Larger body-mass helps survive cold temps. Not needed in Texas.
Houston must be really bad if you have Jack Russell terrorists.
My wife isn't a Yankee but she does have some similar tendencies growing up in massive cities in Brazil (Rio and Sao Palo) such as stopping in front of a door at a restaurant waiting for a doorman (with everyone behind her waiting)... I have to wiggle my way though the crowd to open it for her.. She doesn't mean to be rude but boy, folks in Texas give her funny looks.
(New York) State put freeze on hiring, then added 51,464 people
Don’t tempt me. I’ve got a good spot already picked out.
If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 36 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Upstate New York.
If you’re proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Saranac Lake is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Upstate New York.
I call greater Miami/Fort Lauderdale, New York City’s sixth borough.
If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Upstate New York.
...and if you go back just one more year, to 1999, you can add my compensation to that mix. That was the year that I got married, and switched my job from NYC to NJ to be able to spend more time with my wife. At the very end of 2000, we moved to Texas.
No state income tax is nice. No real restrictions on firearms laws is also very nice - now, unlike when I lived in the PRNJ, I don’t have to worry about getting tossed into jail for several dozen years for the “crime” of owning a few spring-loaded boxes made out of metal and/or plastic (otherwise known to the tyrants and hoplophobes of the PRNJ as “high capacity magazines”). F’em, I value my freedom.
So long as people are allowed to vote with their feet, people will go to those places that treat them like free people, which take less of their hard-earned money, and generally show them the respect that every human being deserves.
As a refugee from the PRNJH, I can state unequivocably that not all of us originally unfortunate enough to have been born and raised in the Yankee Tyranny are libtards; some of us revel in the lack of such services, which makes for a more freedom-oriented place to live.
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