DMF: Economist Stephen Moore writes in his column at IBD that blue states of America are in a depression. He didn’t mean the collective funk of Hillary fans because they lost the election to Donald Trump.He’s talking about an economic malaise in the blue states that went for Hillary Clinton. Moore called them the “loser states.” They’re all “progressive.” They have high tax rates, high welfare payments, heavy regulation, environmental “extremism” and very high minimum wages. Most of them have laws against drilling for oil or any kind of fossil fuels.
Of the ten states that Democrats won by the largest margins, California, Massachusetts, Vermont, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, Illinois, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Connecticut, all lost domestic migration (excluding immigration) between 2004 and 2014. Nearly 2.75 million more Americans left California and New York than migrated to those states.
“The whole left-wing playbook is on display in the Clinton states, and people are leaving in droves. Day after day, they are being bled to death. So much for liberalism creating a worker’s paradise.”
Unfortunately they are all moving to the population hubs, because traffic keeps getting worse. And it isn’t only because of the reduced lanes, bike lanes, etc. – there are a lot more cars.
But I sure do love the beach and the weather, and just have too much invested in relationships here.
But you shouldn’t move here, because earthquakes. And taxes.
What they will eventually do, is to fine anyone who leaves those states. Just like someone leaving the U.S. and giving up U.S. citizenship, they will impose ‘fees, fines, and taxes’ for the error of forgoing state citizenship. When that doesn’t work, they will turn full on communist and forbid anyone to leave.
Original article:
http://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/stephen-moore-the-progressive-state-depression/
It is not *just* the oppressive tax rates, that isn’t even the worst part. It is the oppressive, sadistic, micromanagement – not merely of business activity, but of every aspect of your life – by people in the State legislature and city halls that are literally insane, incomprehensibly stupid, corrupt beyond belief, or all of these things at once.
The time is ripe for defunding liberalism everywhere. Then stand back and watch them totally collapse. (Economically AND mentally.)
As billy fades to gray
Even with freezing rain the drug prone, unemployable, mentally marginal, faggots, and fugitives still come to Portland for the hippie life style, extremely low levels of civic tolerance, and free shit. The Portland Power elites welcome them. I have not doubt wise leaders in Red areas clean up their towns by extolling the virtues of Portland’s progressive insanity.