Bailing Out of Blue States

The new tax bill will benefit most taxpayers, but some will be punished for living in high-tax blue states due to limitations on state and local tax deductions — or rather, they will be punished for being slow to bail out of the blue states, as so many others have been doing:

Three Democratic-leaning states hemorrhaged hundreds of thousands of people in 2016 and 2017 as crime, high taxes and, in some cases, crummy weather had residents seeking greener pastures elsewhere.

The exodus of residents was most pronounced in New York, which saw about 190,000 people leave the state between July 1, 2016 and July 1, 2017, according to U.S. Census Bureau data…

What took them so long? Suffocating moonbattery, societal decay, and stratospheric taxes drove me from New York to Arizona back in 2008.

Since 2010, the state’s outflow of just over 1 million residents has exceeded that of every other state, both in absolute terms and as a share of population, according to the free-market think tank Empire Center.

California and Illinois are next on the list of blue states hemorrhaging residents. Between July 2016 and July 2017, 138,000 and 115,000 residents, respectively, voted with their feet by heading for greener pastures.

The erosion of the tax base will probably inspire the liberals in charge to raise taxes even higher, creating a vicious cycle that will leave all three states populated mainly by Third World immigrants and their largely government-dependent descendants.

Taxes aren’t the only reason to escape states like New York and California. The best-run states are run by Republicans. Income is growing faster. Lower minimum wages mean lower unemployment. These states are better for vets. They give more to charity. Even envy-addled moonbats who consider income inequality to be a problem will have to admit that life is better in red states.

In light of all this, it is no surprise that people are moving from blue states to red states, and that as red states get redder, blue states get redder too.

The whole country might turn red, if not for the effects of massive Third World immigration, which would effect elections for generations to come even if it were shut off completely.

On tips from J.