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Empire State Suicide (New Yorkers are Fleeing the State in Droves)
New York Post ^ | 10/29/2009 | Editorial

Posted on 10/29/2009 5:06:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Edited on 10/29/2009 5:17:40 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

As Gov. Paterson and legislative lead ers meet today to tackle a multibil lion-dollar budget shortfall, they should note a new report's warning: New Yorkers are fleeing in droves -- and it's wreaking havoc with the public fisc.

The report, by the Empire Center for New York State Policy, shows that some 1.5 million people left the state between 2000 and 2008 -- including 1.1 million from New York City alone.


(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; US: New York
KEYWORDS: demography; newyork; taxes
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1 posted on 10/29/2009 5:06:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I just hope they go to some other liberal hellhole and don’t ruin a conservative state like fleeing californians did.


2 posted on 10/29/2009 5:08:00 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: SeekAndFind

NY and CA, the answer is OBVIOUSLY to raise the taxes again.


3 posted on 10/29/2009 5:09:13 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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4 posted on 10/29/2009 5:09:29 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: pissant

>I just hope they go to some other liberal hellhole and don’t ruin a conservative state like fleeing californians did.

Oh, they will.[/cynic]


5 posted on 10/29/2009 5:09:51 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is all very well if you retire. But New York is the only place where large numbers of not exceptionally talented people make $200-500K a year.


6 posted on 10/29/2009 5:11:03 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: SeekAndFind
Let those parasites feed off each other.

I left in '92 and never looked back.

Sick disgusting marxist hell hole.

7 posted on 10/29/2009 5:11:34 PM PDT by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: pissant

“I just hope they go to some other liberal hellhole and don’t ruin a conservative state “ BINGO.


8 posted on 10/29/2009 5:12:03 PM PDT by rsobin
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To: SeekAndFind
New Yorkers are fleeing in droves -- and it's wreaking havoc with the public fisc.

It's the highest taxed state in the union. Leftists have been in charge for too long, and the state is dying. The left is running out of other peoples money.
It's a huge welfare state. Every type of left wing loser you can think of heads for NYC, and it's free to live there because of the lefts "social justice" - they screw up their lives, and everyone else becomes enslaved because of it..

9 posted on 10/29/2009 5:13:04 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes. I witnessed their exodus to the south where they began voting the same way that got them into the mess up there. Now they are ruining conservative spots in the south by overwhelming the land and then electing the same type of idiots they ran from, thus recreating New York in the south. It’s almost made me become prejudice toward anybody coming from north of the Mason-Dixon line.


10 posted on 10/29/2009 5:13:41 PM PDT by Engineer_Soldier (Political correctness is all good for nobody.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes, and I remember the idiot Paterson chortling about it when Rush Limbaugh left, in essence saying, “Good riddance”. Well, how’s that workin’ for ya, Guv?


11 posted on 10/29/2009 5:16:16 PM PDT by Inspectorette
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To: Engineer_Soldier

Yes, indeed. They move to the triangel in C and then think, well, I can afford to pay higher taxes to “impove” the way they do things down here in Hicksville. They won’t leave until they have fouled their new nest!


12 posted on 10/29/2009 5:18:29 PM PDT by RobbyS (Chirho.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Then Hillary, Booba and Bloomers will have to pay for everything.


13 posted on 10/29/2009 5:18:38 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: SeekAndFind

I hear some old parts of the Berlin Wall are still for sale and they can erect them at border spots. Any NY tax payers who trys to move out will be shot.


14 posted on 10/29/2009 5:19:35 PM PDT by MrDem (And this is a loyal lifelong Democrat saying this... Democrats for Cheney/Palin 2012)
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To: Rome2000
It won't matter where we live when the scumbags in Washington DC are done screwing up the country. It will suck all over. I guess I can't blame them since the American people have become weak minded sissies.
15 posted on 10/29/2009 5:20:41 PM PDT by peeps36 (Democrats Don't Need No Stinking Input From You Little People)
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To: SeekAndFind

They’re raising the cost of a fishing license from $19 to $29 next season. New York also ends the season on September 30th, making you buy 2 licenses in a year. Add a $10 stamp for each species you want to fish for and I am now considering just sitting on the bank with the diversity crowd, whom the DEC never checks for licenses.


16 posted on 10/29/2009 5:21:20 PM PDT by printhead
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To: SeekAndFind

Not to worry, they’ll pass a law making it illegal to leave the state. There, that should take care of the problem.


17 posted on 10/29/2009 5:23:10 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: concerned about politics
The left is running out of other peoples money.

They will probably chase those who left the state for tax money like they did Rush.

18 posted on 10/29/2009 5:23:10 PM PDT by Pontiac (Your message here.)
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To: rsobin
“I just hope they go to some other liberal hellhole and don’t ruin a conservative state “ BINGO.

Lots of the leftists in NYC go to New Jersey. That way, they can keep their jobs and commute. When they retire, they go to Florida.

The more Conservative people Upstate move to Pennsylvania and commute. When they retire, they stay there, or maybe vacation in Florida.

19 posted on 10/29/2009 5:23:51 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: pissant

Check U-Haul to see where they’re headed.


20 posted on 10/29/2009 5:24:00 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (FR33 73h lOn9 fOrM 81R7H c3r71F1ca73!!)
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