Posted on 02/02/2018 7:51:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Every major policy overhaul has unanticipated consequences, and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will be no exception. One tantalizing possibility for this one: The Republican tax overhaul helps Democrats in the midterm and 2020 elections by bringing forward the date at which a few critical states — Georgia and possibly even Texas — flip from red to blue.
How might this happen? It stems from the new caps on the home mortgage interest and state and local tax deductions. Restrictions on building have pushed up the costs of housing in expensive coastal blue-state cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City. High income and property taxes piled onto exorbitant rents and mortgage payments amount to cost-of-living force fields that already deflect talented workers to relatively affordable red-state cities, like Phoenix, Houston, Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C.
The tax act’s ceiling on deductions is likely to make many blue-state metro areas even more expensive — at least in the short run.
With the Republican changes to the tax code, the high-cost dynamic that has effectively redistributed some probable Democratic voters from left-leaning to right-leaning states will be thrown into overdrive.
Furthermore, the lowered corporate tax rate is also more likely to spur capital investment, business expansion and job growth in places that are both economically thriving and comparatively cheap — many of them urban areas in red states — which should bring a relative abundance of attractive new opportunities and cost-conscious job seekers.
It’s only mildly surprising that Republican tax reform would stick it to Democratic states and goose the growth of powerful Republican states. But it might come as a shock that this could speed us toward the date when these states are no longer reliably Republican.
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ROTFL. The “democrats” are always complaining that they hear from their constituents all of the time that they WANT to pay MORE taxes. Ask Warren Buffet.
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How delusional! The state governments in places like New York and California made themselves expensive to live in. If Texas and Georgia go blue is because of an influx of illegals and displaced Yankees who bring themselves and their politics from the states they helped to ruin!
Texas turning blue is about as likely as Kalifornia turning red.
turning those rojo states to azul.
Problem is that these transplants bring their failed policies and voting trends with them, apparently not realizing why they had to leave in the first place.
So, the logic goes that those tired of high taxes flee to low tax states, but will vote to eventually raise taxes. Liberalthink. Although I confess, I know some libs who would do just that.
Seems more likely to reduce the number of “Blues”....
Many Hispanics in Texas are conservative Catholics. They are unlikely to support Democrat candidates who approve of abortion up to and including the delivery date of a child.
No, foolishly inviting California to move into your state will turn it blue
have turned Nashville into a “blue island” in a red state
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That’s not unusual. You have the so called “blue islands’ in Texas.
Senate political groups
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Democratic (11)
House political groups
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So the tax plan is going to drive liberals from high cost of living, high tax cities into red States. And the tax plan will cause capital expansion, and businesses will expand in business friendly, low tax red States, so more liberals will move there to work. All these new liberals will turn the red States blue. Sounds like a liberal wet dream, but it has happened before. Oregon, Colorado, the list is getting long.
That’s basically what the article threatens will happen.
Abortion Barbie Part Deux
the stupid never learn from their mistakes...the rats have been claiming they will turn Texas blue for quarter century...
Give it time in Texas. The mexicans lost Texas do in part to immigration. The reverse is also happening. People from all over are moving here.
from five years ago:
Obama campaign veterans launch effort to turn Lone Star State blue
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