Posted on 12/22/2011 6:24:39 AM PST by KeyLargo
Study: Illinois, NJ tie for most outbound migration
The Associated Press
12:20 PM CST, December 21, 2011
An annual study of interstate moving trends by United Van Lines shows that Illinois and New Jersey tied for the states with the largest outbound migration this year.
Americans continue to migrate toward the South and West and away from parts of the Northeast and Midwest, according to United Van Lines, the nation's largest moving company.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/illinois-loses-most-jobs-in-the-nation-following-tax-hike-2011-8#ixzz1hGyqkgLo
Think what the migration would be like if people could afford to sell thekir underwater homes.
I have taken it halfway. I still live in IL, but take the long commute to WI every day.
Having left IL for TX in October, I can claim to be “a statistic”!
Woot!
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
2 great quotes from Albert Einstein
Will the immigrants keep the same voting tendencies? Unfortunately, I think that they will and do.
“And the folks migrating citing high taxation and over regulation will vote RATs in there new adopted State. They just cant help themselves, nor smart enough to see the correlation.”
I have vacationed in New Hampshire and the residents there complain that their state is being changed for the worse by all of the liberals fleeing Taxachusetts and bringing their socialist welfare state demands for ‘free’ government services with them.
US Census Reports: John Galt Votes with his Feet
Taxpayers moving to low-tax states.
By Will Offensicht | January 10, 2011
Back when the Democrats were showing their earnest desire to kill job creation by taxing the rich, we noted that rich people were leaving high-tax states for friendlier jurisdictions. Governments have a long history of driving productive citizens away to their hurt as Hitler thoughtfully drove out the Jewish scientists who gave America the atomic bomb.
http://www.scragged.com/articles/us-census-reports-john-galt-votes-with-his-feet/print
No surprise there. FedGov Inc. is the biggest, fastest growing enterprise in the country.
“No surprise there. FedGov Inc. is the biggest, fastest growing enterprise in the country.”
American Thinker
October 11, 2011
The Ramifications of Higher-Paying Government Jobs
By Chad Stafko
This lackluster economy of the past few years hasn’t been bad for everyone. Sure, millions of Americans have lost their jobs in manufacturing facilities, technology companies, and throughout a plethora of large corporations and small businesses. Yes, states such as Nevada and Florida have experienced atrocious declines in their housing markets, and many states have seen the incomes of their residents actually fall over the past few years.
But not in Washington, D.C., as these are merry days under President Barack Obama. After all, according to Census data collected by CNN Money, it is none other than Washington, D.C. that has seen its median household income rise by 12.1% from 2007 through 2010. Of course, it should come as no surprise that during a time of unprecedented and reckless government spending, the best chance that a family has for its income to rise is to live in the nation’s capital.
The total number on the federal government payroll has certainly increased under Obama — about 144,000 from January 2009 through January 2011. But the bigger issue is that these employees, whether they work outside or within Washington, D.C., tend to benefit from higher salaries than their counterparts and salaries that increase proportionately more than comparable private-sector positions. In addition, with pay freezes or limited salary increases across many companies, the wage gap between the haves and have-nots — that is, between the federal employee and the private-sector employee — has widened over the past few years. This is an alarming trend, and it could be detrimental to the United States in the coming years.
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Oh, horrors ! You mean that the arch conservative Christie does not inspire enough confidence in New Jersey’s future to entice it’s citizens to not jump ship ?
What ? I thought everything was going to turn around in New Jersey !
> /sarc
Watch for outward migration from WI skyrocket if Walker and those four GOP state senators are successfully recalled. The loud and clear message will be: “Economic freedom has no future here. We love Government and Union... all else is unwelcome.”
Southern whites have higher birth rates and can absorb the people moving south. Not all of the people moving south are liberals, by the way. The majority are actually conservative.
“Not all of the people moving south are liberals, by the way. The majority are actually conservative.”
I agree partially.
In general those leaving from high tax Midwestern ‘fly-over’ high tax states to the South are mostly conservative.
However those moving from high tax Eastern states such as New York are generally liberal and are the ones demanding more free government services, (which they are accustomed to), from their new home state.
The fools and idiots who moved to NJ to escape high taxes and political garbage in NY vote for the same types who make laws leading to high taxes and political garbage in NJ. They’re like metastatic cancers and corrupt all societies in which they exist.
The retired teachers and government workers take their lush NJ taxpayer funded pension money far out of the state because of the high property taxes needed to fund lush government pensions. It's a big drain out of the local economy, the taxpayer money never to be seen from again. Of course they vote for maximum socialism in their new location which of course is a conservative area.
Exactly. They've been moving to Texas and are bringing their liberal mindsets with them. Already, Texas isn't what it used to be just 15 years ago.
I am not 100% percent in lock step with Christie BUT he has shown a lot of testicular fortitude taking on the unions which only a few other Governors have. Now even the LIBtard Jerry Brown has challenged the unions with very little protest or news.
The change in the last 50 years in what is now suburban NJ has been nothing short of astounding.
In those days, small-town NJ was a bastion of conservatism, having very few ex-”city dwellers” in them. Many towns were diehard Christian, Republican and small-business. It was truly a different world than it is today.
But the mass migration was starting to kick into high gear and now the populations of small towns are many times what they were then, and almost all of the growth has been from migration from the cities.
All the big-city ideas followed; most politicians in the suburbs have no family history in the towns that they govern, being very recent arrivals.
Most of the oldtime population has either moved away or died of old age.
Please send reinforcements.
I think some of that change is coming from the big invasion from the south.
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