Northeast loses 40% of House seats as people flee high-tax states

Washington Examiner ^ | Sept. 30,2014 | Paul Bedard

[Publius]

New Jersey already has an exit tax.

[Theodore R.]

I actually think that many of the liberals fleeing high tax states don’t realize that many of the pathologies they are fleeing are due to high taxes and bigger government.

To paraphrase the late JFK musing abut Joe McCarthy, I think you're on to something.

[logic101.net]

That is the problem, they flee the results of the policies they voted for then vote to impose them on the innocent residents of the state they fled to.

[KC_Conspirator]

Like locusts, they foul the land they are on, then move on to fertile states.

[Organic Panic]

Didn’t Dick Durbin introduce some kind of national tax to equalize the burden on those seaking lower tax states?

The tax refugees still vote for the crap they left.

[DeaconRed]

As a TV game show host used to say:

COME ON DOWN. . . . .

[AnAmericanMother]

Nothin’ but trouble. Just ask Robert E. Lee. :-)

[manc]

even now many of them still can’t get it into their heads that they are not welcome, trouble is that they have moved on mass and have no intention to recognize why their old state is a screwed up one.