People Voting With Their One-Way U-Haul Rentals

Carpe Diem ^ | 10/8/2009 | Mark J. Perry

[SeekAndFind]

Forbes’ Best States for Business :

http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/23/best-states-for-business-beltway-best-states.html

FULL TABLE OF THE BEST STATES FOR BUSINESS :

http://www.forbes.com/2009/09/23/best-states-for-business-beltway-best-states_table.html

[Tallguy]

What percentage of the federal workforce lives in Virginia?

[2banana]

Amazingly - no one wants to live in democrat socialist cesspools...

[TheZMan]

Proof positive we are being invaded down here.

[SeekAndFind]

What percentage of the federal workforce lives in Virginia?

I would say a lot. Who would want to live in teh dangerous city of Washington DC ? A lot of people live in Virginia and commute to DC and then leave the capitol at the end of the day.

[230FMJ]

Bump

[rabscuttle385]

Who would want to live in teh dangerous city of Washington DC ?

Depends. There are some parts in Northwest that are really nice. That said, I much prefer Virginia to both DC *and* Maryland!

[rabscuttle385]

Great. Now I know why traffic keeps getting increasingly worse here in Northern Virginia.

[MaxMax]

It's mostly Government jobs. I'm losing my business here in VA along with
countless others. Commercial vacancy is everywhere. Nobody is spending a dime
on anything they don't need, and service companies are faltering because of it.

Unemployment may be low (gov) but nobody is spending out of fear for the future.
The largest employer right now "is" the Gov.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This is precisely what federalism is supposed to solve. The beauty of the Founders was that people can always vote with their feet when their state government becomes too oppressive.

Unfortunately, the people who escape these socialist hellholes try to implement the same socialist crap as before.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

We ought to be able to verify the voter regestration card and turn them back at the state line if we dont like it.We want smart people who work, not democraps.

[napscoordinator]

I don’t think that is true anymore...Walmart has surpassed the government...unless you count every single agency including state federal and local than maybe they are tied.

[jessduntno]

"Unfortunately, the people who escape these socialist hellholes try to implement the same socialist crap as before."

New Hampshire and Maine went from solid conservative places to live only to turn into socialist strongholds after the "Massholes" ruined the Commonwealth and moved north - because they want to socialize the states with YOUR money, not theirs...

[MaxMax]

Excuse me, going broke in my service company doesn't seem like and exaggeration.
And watching other companies close must just happen to other people. Are you being /s ?

Do you live in Virginia?

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Walmart may have surpassed the government. But what is the top pay at Walmart these days, vs the top pay at a government position?

[SwedeBoy2]

How can Oregon Come in Tenth overall?

The city of Portland and Multnomah County are positively Hostile to any kind of Industry.

They keep raising the Taxes and driving family wage jobs out.

I guess they think we’ll all get rich flipping burgers and giving each other Lap Dances.

[P.O.E.]

Voting with one’s fleet, you might say.

[napscoordinator]

I believe it is in the millions for Walmart (the Walton kids) to 400,000 dollars for the President. A cap of 135,000 a year for the government management of the federal government. Your right government workers make peanuts.

[arthurus]

One reason for the difference in U-Haul pricing is that they need the trucks in the “bad” states. One way rentals leave them in the “good” states and they have to be transported back. The company is essentially paying renters to drive trucks back to the “bad” states. That is just one of the ways that supply&demand works out. If the traffic gets really heavy out of Michigan the price back to Michigan could conceivably even drop to $100. I can imagine U-Hauls lined up southbound on the Interstate out of Detroit.