Posted on 05/16/2011 3:45:51 AM PDT by lowbridge
As state lawmakers hem and haw over Gov. Cuomo's property-tax cap, a new poll last week showed that more than one of every four New Yorkers is headed for the exits.
Indeed, more than one in three New Yorkers under the age of 30, some 36 percent, want out, the survey by the exemplary NY1/YNN-Marist pollsters found.
"Unchecked," says Marist's Lee Miringoff, "this threatens to drain the state of the next generation."
Overstatement? Detroit lost a quarter of its population between 2000 and 2011; absolutely, it could happen here.
Indeed, Buffalo already lost 11 percent over the past decade. Overall, the state's population grew slower than all but three other states.
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I don’t think it is necessarily taxes. I think it is the job problem. Same with Detroit. Those folks did not leave Detroit because of taxes, they left because the industry died and they needed to retrain in another area which meant leaving the city.
The only problem is that after they destroy their host, these Blue-State locusts move to a Red State to feed off them.
Businesses also flee high taxes - hence the loss of jobs.
I’m trying to leave myself. Its tax hell all to pay for grossly overpaid cops, firemen, teachers, garbage men, and govt workers. The property taxes are beyond nuts and the locusts and leeches run the place.
I left in 2000. Single best decision of my life.
Businesses also flee high taxes - hence the loss of jobs.
Then perhaps that is what the story should focus on instead of the taxes being a personal reason for reason.
Then perhaps that is what the story should focus on instead of the taxes being a personal reason for leaving.
I moved to a small town in North Carolina last year and half the people here are former New Yorkers. There should be a law that if you want to live in the South you have to check your liberalism at the Mason-Dixon Line.
Its everything. The taxes are criminal, the parasites outnumber the producers, etc.
Dear yankees. Please stay in your state and do not come here and ruin my state. Thank you.
Signed: A South Carolinian.
As far as NY goes, it's mostly a tax problem.
During a temporary moment of insanity, we had considered moving back to Long Island. I 86'd the idea pretty quick when I realized how much I would be paying in property taxes - and that I'd have to sell my guns.
My friend lives in a crappy house in a crappy Hempstead neighborhood. The house is 100% paid off, yet he still pays $18,000 per year in property taxes. He wouldn't even be able to rent the place for that much. Despite owning his home outright, he essentially a tax slave to the froward minority pols, renters and 3rd worlders who run (and are destroying) Hempstead and it's deplorable, astronomically expensive school system.
The lefties/unions/parasites there think they can just keep sucking everyone dry, but the smart people and their smart money simply leave.
Concur—not just taxes, but lack of opportunity. Upstate NY is very beautiful, but its an economic wasteland. Its the Appalachia of the North, closer in character to WV than to New York City.
$18,000 per year in property taxes.
Good God. If I didn’t know any better, I would have thought you were talking about Texas. I had no idea that property taxes in New York were as horrible as Texas.
I moved to a small town in North Carolina last year and half the people here are former New Yorkers. There should be a law that if you want to live in the South you have to check your liberalism at the Mason-Dixon Line.
AMEN TO THAT!
And do you suppose that astronomical taxes have anything to do with that? If you're a business owner are you going to go to a state which plunders the fruits of your labor and then stifles you in regulations, or are you going to go to a more business friendly venue where you're not supporint as many parasitical state employees?
Dittos for Florida and Georgia.
will you welcome conservative yankees?
How about conservative FReeper yankees?
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