The bad part of this is that these Mass. refugees are moving to states with more sane governments bringing their stupid voting habits with them. Watch as NH and Maine become more blue as Mass. becomes more empty. Instead of one screwed up state we will have three.
Yep...liberal communism will do that to a state...reduce it's moral standards and financial prosperity sinks to lower levels too. Look out Ca, NY and NJ...you going down too. Corrupt liberalism will drag you down it's rat hole existence.
Isn't Maine already worse off than Mass? Or at least already going down that path? My parents live in NH and I do fear for what you suggest, however.
Massachusetts has a flat personal income tax. Again and again, liberals have tried to introduce different rate brackets, but a referendum is necessary and the electorate has voted it down four times. Apparently two consecutive sessions of both houses of the legislature have to vote a constitutional amendment and the voters have to approve it in a referendum.
It seems to work, at least as far as keeping taxes down is concerned. Voters also had a cap on local property taxes written into the constitution in an initiative election. In Massachusetts initiative and referendum don't work so well for conservatives on social issues. But when it comes to people's own money they don't always make the wrong choice -- if they do get a chance to choose.
What you see now with Massachusans moving to New Hampshire or Californians moving to Arizona or Idaho seems like the way of the world. Cities get crowded. Taxes and crime increase, so people move out. A half century ago people were moving from the cities to the new suburbs. Now they move further away.
In the past, this was offset by people from rural states moving into industrial areas to work. But now the industries are moving out to those greener fields and taking the jobs with them, and the more of the newcomers to industrial cities in both the blue and the red states come from outside the country.
Then there will be an exodus from those states.
These liberals are so stupid they don't know what they're doing to themselves. They vote in these socialists, then leave when things go bad, but continuing to vote for socialists in their new state!
The reddest counties in NH are the ones closest to the Mass. border. Most tax migrants are Republicans. In fact, I'll bet that the Mass. emmigrants are disproportionately (for Mass.) Republicans.
I heard an interesting thing tonight on Shep Smith on FOX.... about the recycling police in Seattle. A woman who said she is a liberal says her concern is too many people think it's okay if they go through the trash and if there is more than 10% recycleables in there they are ticketed.... her quote was that the people are so far leaning to the left they won't realize they are in danger of giving up civil rights to these people until it's too late...