“Redisticting - by the way, did you notice that almost every state gaining seats is a RTW state, and almost every state losing seats is a forced-union state?”
The only trouble with that is that many of the new arrivals are died-in-the-wool liberals from blue states who hate high taxes and economic slowness and yet still thaink liberalism has nothing to do with it.
Invariably, they bring their rotten voting habits with them and “there goes the neighborhood.”
“Invariably, they bring their rotten voting habits with them and “there goes the neighborhood.”
You paint with a brush that’s too broad. Everyone I know that left the socialist state of Michigan for the south is conservative.
The problem in the south, as I see it, is that the citizens here vote conservative in national elections, but vote democrat in local elections, because my daddy, grandaddy and great-grandaddy voted democrat.
It’s a major reality disconnect, although I’m starting to see these voters slowly wake up and realize that a local democrat is as slimey as a national democrat.
Yes, understood - I was pointing to a cause (better public policy - ie RTW - leads to superior opportunities), and you mention an unfortunate effect, those opportunities might attract losers from rust-bucket blue-states. This is a problem New Hampshire has, folks move in from Massachusetts to escape high taxes, and then inexplicably want to impose their leftist high-tax nonsense - basically like inviting someone over on a hot day, and they peee in your pool.
This is why red states should cut off as much government hand-outs as possible. Low taxes attract productive people to the state, and meanwhile reducing hand-outs will force rent-seekers to move out to dumb-ass blue states like NY and CA.
Yes, understood - I was pointing to a cause (better public policy - ie RTW - leads to superior opportunities), and you mention an unfortunate effect, those opportunities might attract losers from rust-bucket blue-states. This is a problem New Hampshire has, folks move in from Massachusetts to escape high taxes, and then inexplicably want to impose their leftist high-tax nonsense - basically like inviting someone over on a hot day, and they peee in your pool.
This is why red states should cut off as much government hand-outs as possible. Low taxes attract productive people to the state, and meanwhile reducing hand-outs will force rent-seekers to move out to dumb-ass blue states like NY and CA.
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