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The Blue State Exodus Accelerates
Wall Street Journal ^ | 4/29/2023 | The Editorial Board

Posted on 04/29/2023 10:15:52 AM PDT by Beave Meister

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker shrugged last year after several high-profile corporations left his state. “Countless companies are choosing Illinois as their home,” Mr. Pritzker said. Then why does a new Internal Revenue Service report show an accelerating taxpayer exodus from Illinois and other high-tax states?

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: bluestates; ca; california; chicago; communist; democrats; exodus; il; illinois; liberals; newyork; ny; nyny; socialism; taxes
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A long, long time ago they were nice places to live, but liberals turn everything they touch into feces...
1 posted on 04/29/2023 10:15:52 AM PDT by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

“A long, long time ago they were nice places to live, but liberals turn everything they touch into feces...”

Democrats turn everything they touch into feces; liberals are just too timid to call it out.


2 posted on 04/29/2023 10:20:42 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Beave Meister

Great, they **** the nest up yonder and they will move elsewhere and do the same.

They will also drive up prices in more affordable places.

Some are sane but most will just repeat.

Maybe they will completely empty Michigan, I’ve always thought they have some gorgeous land up there.


3 posted on 04/29/2023 10:21:57 AM PDT by Irenic
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To: Beave Meister

It is astonishing that liberals never ask the question “Is this policy working? Do we need to change course? Should we abandon this and try something else?” They are totally immune to empiricism and their consistent response is to double down on what failed in the first place.

Any honest assessment of any liberal policy reveals complete disaster everywhere you look.

Oregon is on the verge of passing a law to make it illegal to say something mean to a homeless person. It’s not a two-way law. The bums can continue to harass, spit on, scream at the Normals, and defecate on their front yards, but not the other way around.


4 posted on 04/29/2023 10:25:16 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: Beave Meister; All

You can get past the WSJ paywall by searching the article headline, click on the RealClearPolitics link, and then click the “Read Full Article” button.


5 posted on 04/29/2023 10:28:47 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Redistricting in 2030 will have its effects in our favor-gotta wait. That means the rats will have to cheat more. Abortion will be restricted in states that matter.

Seeds being sowed for a national divorce. It will be awesome! Red states ‘deporting’ their illegals to the blue ones. It will be so bad the illegals will return to the old country-heh heh.


6 posted on 04/29/2023 10:30:42 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Thank you very much for that information...


7 posted on 04/29/2023 10:33:39 AM PDT by Beave Meister (Leave the gun. Take the cannoli....)
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To: Beave Meister

Yes, but they keep winning and we keep losing.


8 posted on 04/29/2023 10:40:20 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: DIRTYSECRET

The problem is they are very adroit at creating new ways to cheat in every election and destroy election integrity. Republicans, if they do anything at all, try to fix those vulnerabilities in the next election, but, by then, the Dems have created a whole new menu of cheats. It becomes a fool’s errand.


9 posted on 04/29/2023 10:43:42 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: Beave Meister

Woke Billionaire Fat Boy and his weirdo woke family doesn’t care about the taxpaying citizens of Illinois.

But we already knew that.


10 posted on 04/29/2023 11:11:34 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: nwrep
They became school teachers and school policy makers while conservatives had other types of jobs. They indoctrinated the kids rather completely. This was a stated communist goal. The KGB checked off everything on their list.

It cannot be repaired without bloodshed. That will never happen. Besides, the "good guys" are now seriously outnumbered. This Nation was a grand thing while it lasted.

11 posted on 04/29/2023 11:31:00 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
It is astonishing that liberals never ask the question “Is this policy working? Do we need to change course? Should we abandon this and try something else?” They are totally immune to empiricism and their consistent response is to double down on what failed in the first place.

It's astonishing to me as well.

12 posted on 04/29/2023 11:37:04 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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>>Redistricting in 2030 will have its effects in our favor-gotta wait

That SHOULD have happened in the 2020 census, but the rats used “statistical corrections” to falsify the data so that the commie states like NY and CA wouldn’t lose electoral votes.


13 posted on 04/29/2023 11:55:07 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Good info. Unfortunately, the average Freeper isn’t interested in reading articles.


14 posted on 04/29/2023 1:11:48 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Beave Meister

I think the liberals will foul up their new states, but I hope red states will tell them to go back to their S*ITHOLE, not to **CK their new states!!


15 posted on 04/29/2023 1:13:36 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: Beave Meister

So Illinois lost $25 billion in AGI of taxpayers, NY lost $50 billion in AGI taxpayers from 2019-2021. California lost close to $60 billion AGI of tax payers. That’s the gift that keeps giving year in and year out. Those states will never get a dime since that AGI taxpayer not only won’t pay taxes but the economy won’t get those dollars moving through it.

Good. If they abuse you leave. Go somewhere else but please don’t bring their BS ideas with them. They do unfortunately.


16 posted on 04/29/2023 1:22:52 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored !)
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To: Beave Meister

You don’t let cockroaches live just because they’re escaping from your kitchen into the den, do you?


17 posted on 04/29/2023 1:26:14 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Beave Meister

The problem is they aren’t exiting the country (except for the few conservative republicans.)


18 posted on 04/29/2023 1:31:04 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Deplorable American1776

Like maybe Trump should go back to New York if he thinks Florida blows so much.


19 posted on 04/29/2023 1:36:52 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: wgmalabama; Beave Meister; Deplorable American1776

“I think the liberals will foul up their new states, but I hope red states will tell them to go back to their S*ITHOLE, not to **CK their new states!!”

...and...

“If they abuse you leave. Go somewhere else but please don’t bring their BS ideas with them. They do unfortunately.”

This is a very common theme on the NextDoor app in the Coeur d’Alene, Idaho area. Lots of California, Oregon and Washington expats in North Idaho say they fled those sh!thole states because they are hopelessly gone. But our locals and long-timers are very wary of them and what they did to the states they departed. Generally, most expats I talk to are very conservative.


20 posted on 04/29/2023 1:36:53 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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