Is it my imagination or does it seem that every time there's a thread about declining population, it always concerns a liberal state? I have seen recent threads about New Jersey, California, Massachusetts, and now Rhode Island. All are losing population.
My concern is that these "people leaving" are Democrats who have fouled their own nests and now are migrating to other states where they will continue to vote Democrat and screw up those states for everybody else.
Of my wife's family of eight siblings...born in RI, five now live in NC, FL, AZ, and PA.
It's all about taxes and liberalism. Unfriendly to business, opportunity, wealth.
Not what I'm seeing. The libs, mostly gubmint employees, stay and bitch..and get salary increases. Or get phat pensions...or go on SSDI. The sibs in wife's family are not libs. They got out to escape the libs. And the taxes. Especially the property taxes.
Yep, and it seems like they are all coming to Pennsylvania, where they are really screwing the Commonwealth up even more than it already was.
I left MA for Georgia. I hated the MA politicians and the Boston Fish wrap.
State-Local Tax Burdens, Calendar Year 2005
Rank State State/Local taxes as
% of per capita income
U.S. average 10.10%
1 Maine 13.00%
2 New York 12.00%
3 Hawaii 11.50%
4 Rhode Island 11.40%
5 Wisconsin 11.40%
6 Vermont 11.10%
7 Ohio 11.00%
8 Nebraska 10.90%
9 Utah 10.90%
10 Minnesota 10.70%
11 Arkansas 10.50%
12 Connecticut 10.50%
13 West Virginia 10.50%
14 New Jersey 10.40%
15 Kansas 10.40%
16 Louisiana 10.40%
17 Maryland 10.30%
18 Indiana 10.30%
19 Kentucky 10.30%
20 California 10.30%
21 Arizona 10.20%
22 Michigan 10.10%
23 Wyoming 10.10%
24 Washington 10.00%
25 Iowa 10.00%
26 Mississippi 10.00%
27 Idaho 10.00%
28 North Carolina 10.00%
29 New Mexico 9.90%
30 Illinois 9.80%
31 Georgia 9.80%
32 Massachusetts 9.80%
33 South Carolina 9.70%
34 Virginia 9.70%
35 Pennsylvania 9.70%
36 Oregon 9.60%
37 Colorado 9.50%
38 Nevada 9.50%
39 Montana 9.50%
40 Oklahoma 9.40%
41 Missouri 9.40%
42 North Dakota 9.40%
43 Texas 9.30%
44 Florida 9.20%
45 South Dakota 8.80%
46 Alabama 8.70%
47 Tennessee 8.30%
48 Delaware 8.00%
49 New Hampshire 7.40%
50 Alaska 6.40%
District of Columbia 12.20%
Source: Tax Foundation, 2005
It is not your imagination. Much of the growth in my state of NH comes from Massachusetts, and now NH is solidly blue. I believe (and pray!) it will be temporary when people witness what is occurring in Massachusetts and what will happen over the next four years while Deval Patrick is governor.
Voters in Colorado and New Hampshire: Take note.
That's the plan. Didn't you get the memo?
Indy has been getting more lib for some time, thanks to the influx of Illini - Chicagoans in particular - and liberal migrants from other states. It really, really sucks.
Arizona, California, Delaware, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania—are raising their minimum wage. The federal minimum is $5.15 an hour. The new state minimum wages go as high as $7.50 an hour. And businesses will either raise their prices, stop hiring people at all, increase robotization of their production lines, or close their doors and relocate to other states. Economics 101, again. My guess is that the new laws in North Carolina and Pennsylvania were made possible because of the influx of New Yorkers, and in Arizona by the influx of Californians. Why is it that people leave a state because the state government has screwed up their lives, and then go on to replicate the situation in their adoptive state? I swear, one new law I’d support would be that people moving to a different state should not be allowed to vote on local matters until they’ve lived there for five years.
But that’s a rant for another time.
http://www.theothersideofkim.com/
Yeah, like my lovely home state of North Carolina!