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Empire State Suicide (New Yorkers are Fleeing the State in Droves)
New York Post ^ | 10/29/2009 | Editorial

Posted on 10/29/2009 5:06:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Edited on 10/29/2009 5:17:40 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

As Gov. Paterson and legislative lead ers meet today to tackle a multibil lion-dollar budget shortfall, they should note a new report's warning: New Yorkers are fleeing in droves -- and it's wreaking havoc with the public fisc.

The report, by the Empire Center for New York State Policy, shows that some 1.5 million people left the state between 2000 and 2008 -- including 1.1 million from New York City alone.


(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; US: New York
KEYWORDS: demography; newyork; taxes
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To: proxy_user
New York is the only place where large numbers of not exceptionally talented people make $200-500K a year.

Even more if they're with the Knicks, Mets or Bills. ;-P

21 posted on 10/29/2009 5:24:32 PM PDT by OrangeHoof ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Bend over suckahs".)
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To: Engineer_Soldier
Yes. I witnessed their exodus to the south where they began voting the same way that got them into the mess up there.

Just like the Mexicans come to America to live the American dream, and then demand to be treated like poor Mexicans! They bring their failed culture with them. The liberals bring their failed policies with them. It lacks common sense.

22 posted on 10/29/2009 5:29:34 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Engineer_Soldier

DAMN Yankees!

I know about Damn Yankees because I went to Abbeyville SC where my ancestors settled in 1760 and went into an antique store run by a lady with a definite Northeast accent. She said people around there call her that. She said there are Yankees and there are DAMN Yankees.


23 posted on 10/29/2009 5:30:32 PM PDT by tinamina
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To: concerned about politics

I left whe I enlisted in 1978. When I visit my family I have a different perspective: You (y’all) see, I lost my distinctive Lawnguylant accent years ago: You just see the wheels in the head of native noo yawkers turning:”How can I Screw this yokel out of his cash”


24 posted on 10/29/2009 5:32:26 PM PDT by slapshot (""USAF- when you absolutely, positively need it delivered on target, on time, right away)
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To: pissant

Bad guess, they’re coming south. Once there, they will bring the mechanization to vote in the same type of Demonrat that drove them out of NY.


25 posted on 10/29/2009 5:34:38 PM PDT by j_tull (I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.)
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To: SeekAndFind

No, the job providing, successful are fleeing New York, leaving only the poor and the leeches. Who have nothing to tax beyond what they are gioven by the bribing demoPoliticians, who are quickly losing anyone they can steal and rob any more money from, to bribe the poor and the leeches into voting them into their offices again and again.

And when NY collapses these self same DemoRats who destroyed NY, will move in land and try to dio them same “good intentions” in other cities, that they haven’t allready infested and are leecing the lifeblood out of.


26 posted on 10/29/2009 5:39:51 PM PDT by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bet NY state figures out a way to tax them before they leave. You know, kinda like a leave-the-state tax of 20%.


27 posted on 10/29/2009 5:47:15 PM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: OneWingedShark

“NY and CA, the answer is OBVIOUSLY to raise the taxes again.”

That is all the dimoKKKRATS know how to do. Tax and spend even more.


28 posted on 10/29/2009 5:57:39 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: MrDem

Hey, I resemble that remark!

Once I get to your state, I will make a beeline for guns and ammo, the the CC license. While in the waiting period, I will join the local republican club.

Trouble is, right now I am in tokyo converting my NYS license to a Japanes one. No guns for the meantime..

But the locals get a kick out of my Reagan tshirts!


29 posted on 10/29/2009 6:02:44 PM PDT by flushing_kenny (One by one, I will stop the motors of the world)
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To: All

This may explain it !

Argumentative anihilation is being sectioned off now as the spirit of Korah shows no sign or redemptive values towards the spirit of Unity and in this the spirit of death has been released do to an unrepentive nature “ yeah “ posture , so strange fire and reproach is their only fruit .

Come away from their tents as Leviathan coils around them as an Adder and poisons their minds for truly they hatch only unworthiness “ yeah “ condemnation the spawn of satan himself .

So fear not my children for I am your Aaron “ yeah ‘ your priest standing in the midst of you as your saving grace and I shall deliver you from their ways as my incense of Unity unites only those true of heart to the Father’s ways and trust in the knowing I Am The Lord of Hosts , King of kings and Lord of lords “ El Shadai “ .


30 posted on 10/29/2009 6:12:22 PM PDT by Jedediah
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To: flushing_kenny

Texas is hot and humid. Hurricanes every year. Oil derricks spew oil all over your house. Joe Lieberman says we have to check the newspapers for pollution index to see if we can let the children out to play.

Just a terrible place to live. Please don’t come here. Don’t mess with Texas!


31 posted on 10/29/2009 6:14:14 PM PDT by encm(ss)
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To: SeekAndFind
no problem... the ratbastards will just raise taxes on the rest of us
32 posted on 10/29/2009 6:24:43 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- I AM JIM THOMPSON!)
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To: encm(ss)
Just a terrible place to live. Please don’t come here. Don’t mess with Texas!

That's right. The south is a bunch of redneck hicks who want to marry your children to our children at very young ages. You don't want to come down here......please........just tough it out where you're at. In fact, just like the Kool Aid GWB Repbublicans always say: don't abandon, just reform. The northeast NEEDS y'all. LEAVE THE SOUTH AS IT WAS!

33 posted on 10/29/2009 6:25:13 PM PDT by Engineer_Soldier (I'll never hold my nose and vote again! Only small-government leaders will get my vote.)
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To: j_tull

Look what has happened to Florida and the Carolinas. Give it another ten years without a change in the trend and it is possible that Georgia falls into the iffy column. The northern suburbs of Atlanta may already be over 50% transplants.

Admittedly, Senator Chambliss is a stuffed shirt and still easily won his run off election, but the democrat should have never been close enough to trigger one.


34 posted on 10/29/2009 6:31:48 PM PDT by Pan_Yan (All gray areas are fabrications.)
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To: tinamina
There are plenty here in the Columbia area and I wished they would go back to the utopias they came from. The New England Damn Yankee variety of transplant in my experience is the worst. Northerners are normal people from up north and OK and then there are the worthless DAMN yankees that I despise.
35 posted on 10/29/2009 6:35:19 PM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: Pan_Yan

The worthless yankee liberals have done a lot of damage to both Carolinas. NC used to be a really good state to visit.


36 posted on 10/29/2009 6:37:43 PM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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To: wally_bert

I am a Yankee as was my Father and his Father before him. My family has lived in New England for several hundred years. You wouldn’t find anyone more conservative than we are. God fearing , military people. My two sons now live in Texas because NE is so opposite to what they believe. Hope you don’t want to kick us out because we really like it here.


37 posted on 10/29/2009 6:58:47 PM PDT by heylady
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To: j_tull

exactly right, NC is living proof.


38 posted on 10/29/2009 7:10:51 PM PDT by devildognc (We've lasted through the preliminary bouts; the main event is coming up. But it's not for sissies.)
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To: Engineer_Soldier

We call them Damn Yankees for a reason around here.


39 posted on 10/29/2009 7:14:10 PM PDT by packrat35 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.- M Thatcher)
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To: heylady

Mmmmm, okey dokey, podner. Just sit a spell in that there rockin chair, share my spitoon n let me tell ya how it works down here. If’n y’all then decide y’all like it here then I am shore there could be a piece a propity over yonder hill y’all might git yer hands on.


40 posted on 10/29/2009 7:17:58 PM PDT by biff
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