bdamage Loc: My Bunker

The new Exodus!
Get out before "they" suck your brains out of your skull!!!

How telling.

FAILING LIBERAL STATES LOSING RESIDENTS BY THE MILLIONS
April 20, 2015

Americans are flocking to red states in droves. As reported by the Daily Signal on Sunday, a new study from the American Legislative Exchange Council finds that California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Illinois have suffered a net loss of some four million residents over the last decade as Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Arizona, and Georgia have gained roughly the same number of residents over the same time period.

To put such long-term numbers in perspective, Illinois alone has lost a staggering one person every ten minutes since 1996. A 2014 Gallup poll also found that seven of the ten states with the most residents saying they still want to leave are all Democrat-run states (eight if you count the purple state of Nevada). This ongoing trend will eventually cost liberal states representation in both the E*******l College and the House…and it in no way indicates that conservative states will be turned purple by the continuous flow of blue state refugees (as Nate Silver explains on Five Thirty-Eight).

The annual report, titled, “Rich States, Poor States,” finds that states with the strongest economic outlooks include Utah, North Dakota, Indiana, and North Carolina, while those at the very bottom include New York, Vermont, Minnesota, and Connecticut. Fifteen of the twenty worst-performing state economies this year have been Democrat strongholds (sixteen if you count the purple state of Ohio), and fourteen of the twenty best-performing state economies have been ones dominated by conservatives (seventeen if you count the purple states of Virginia, Colorado, and Nevada).

This growing exodus of citizens out of jobless, crime-ridden liberal wastelands and into states that protect free markets, keep taxes low, and live within their means is nothing new. And neither is the fact that these hostile, anti-business nanny states that endlessly redistribute other people’s wealth, blame everything on “not enough government,” and insist that the top ten percent of earners funding the vast majority of the Federal Government by themselves is them “not paying their fair share” are always the most bankrupt states in the country…despite having the highest income and property taxes.
Read full story:
http://overpassesforamerica.com/?p=8079

Adios California....HELLO Texas!

pafret Loc: Northeast

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This report is wishful thinking, the only state to lose population was West Virginia. With the destruction of the coal industry those folks are reduced to eating rocks. I would move under those circumstances also.

Check out this link:


State & DC Population: 2010, 2013 & 2014 Data from Census Bureau

http://www.newgeography.com/content/004818-2014-state-population-rise-south-and-west-continues

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

BD,

I have no idea where your information came from, seems as if someone blogged in moms basement..

I also did not look for information to refute your post. It seems so very incorrect.

I can speak for Minnesota, as I have before. Unemployment a bit over 3% last I noticed. Jobs are begging. Construction all over the place. Anyone wants a job, they can have one in an hour. Even with no experience.. The GOP and DEMS worked together for a time, now state has 2 billion surplus. The state is working better than it has in decades.. Future projects on line should provide growth for a generation at least.

No leaving anymore often then when I was in junior high.. The winter will drive some to the sunshine states, but it always has..

If I were you, I would recheck those figures before someone jumps on them....

permafrost Loc: Minnesota

Good reply, Pafret. Sure better then mine....
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bdamage Loc: My Bunker

Oh I don't know frosty....there are several articles on this.
Here's another that has NY, Illinois, Cali, and NJ in the top 4.
A Whole 9 Out Of The Top 10 States Losing Population Are Democrat Bastions
http://www.peoplespunditdaily.com/public-policy/2014/04/03/whole-9-top-10-states-losing-population-democrat-bastions/

jasfourth401

Yes. These are the correct numbers on population growth per state. The original post on this string refers to the migration of population between states and infers people are moving to lower tax states, moving due to job growth, plus the standard patterns for folks moving due to retirement (Florida, North Carolina as examples). I am an example of the first group noted with an address change from Pennsylvania to Florida for tax purposes, although I still spend 5 months and 29 days up north.

PeterS

Everything BD posts is wishful thinking. Of course, for BD thinking would be an oxymoron so lets just say wishful on his part...

bdamage Loc: My Bunker

Wow....did you manage to think that one up all by yourself there Peetee?

jelun

Oh, of course there are several articles about it. And they all go back to ALEC. One blogger cites ALEC, the next blogger cites the one who attributed the info to ALEC, then another and another.
It all goes back to the one faulty source.
You don't have to believe me, check it out.
If they give any source at all it all leads back to ALEC.

bdamage Loc: My Bunker

You should be a happy camper there jeloon.
Look how I keep you busy with all these little projects.
You get to look stuff up on google and write about your findings.
If it weren't for me, how would you collect your paycheck?

Workinman Loc: Bayou Pigeon

Here's some backup:


Commentary By
Portrait of Stephen Moore


Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren recently appeared on one of the late night talk shows, beating the class warfare drum and arguing for billions of dollars in new social programs paid for with higher taxes on millionaires and billionaires. In recent years, though, blue states such as California, Illinois, Delaware, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland and Minnesota adopted this very strategy, and they raised taxes on their wealthy residents. How did it work out? Almost all of these states lag behind the national average in growth of jobs and incomes.

So, if income redistribution policies are the solution to shrinking the gap between rich and poor, why do they fail so miserably in the states?

Day after day, the middle class keeps leaving California. The wealthy areas such as San Francisco and the Silicon Valley boom. Yet the state has nearly the highest poverty rate in the nation.

The blue states that try to lift up the poor with high taxes, high welfare benefits, high minimum wages and other Robin Hood policies tend to be the places where the rich end up the richest and the poor the poorest.


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California is the prototypical example. It has the highest tax rates of any state. It has very generous welfare benefits. Many of its cities have a high minimum wage. But day after day, the middle class keeps leaving. The wealthy areas such as San Francisco and the Silicon Valley boom. Yet the state has nearly the highest poverty rate in the nation. The Golden State, alas, has become the ine******y state.

In a new report called “Rich States, Poor States” that I write each year for the American Legislative Exchange Council with Arthur Laffer and Jonathan Williams, we find that five of the highest-tax blue states in the nation—California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Illinois—lost some 4 million more U.S. residents than entered these states over the last decade. Meanwhile, the big low-tax red states—Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Arizona and Georgia—gained about this many new residents.

So much for liberal policies creating a workers paradise.

One liberal economic think tank—the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy—recently issued a report on the states with the most and least “regressive” tax systems. The conclusion was that states should raise their income taxes on the rich to be more “fair.” Except it turns out that people are leaving the states that the think tank ranks as fair, and they are moving to the states the think tank ranks as economically backward.

The least “regressive” tax states had average population growth from 2003 to 2013 that lagged below the national trend. The 10 most highly “regressive” tax states, including nine with no state income tax, had population growth on average 4 percent above the U.S. average. Why was that? Because states without income taxes have twice the job growth of states with high tax rates. Unlike the experts at the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, most Americans think that fairness means having a job.

For the rest of the story...

http://dailysignal.com/2015/04/19/these-blue-states-have-tried-the-elizabeth-warren-model-their-residents-are-fleeing/