NYP: Taxpaying New Yorkers are leaving in droves for other states.
In 2014, 126,000 tax filers fled to other places in the US — more people than in any other state, according to a study posted on newgeography.com.
The Empire State also lost the most “high earners,” who reported making more than $200,000 a year.
“New York has been leading the nation in domestic migration for decades,” Wendell Cox, who co-authored the study, told the Albany Times Union.
While New York’s population is still growing, in part because of immigration, many residents are leaving for other states because of high property taxes, a lack of business opportunities and unaffordable homes.
“The property taxes are bad, but they are on top of an even worse situation in terms of affordability,” Cox said. MORE
Bon Voyage! Since a lot of them support the dhimos and Shrillary, I vote they emigrate to muslim country, en masse. The Shieks would welcome the diversity.
Just don’t bring your leftist tendencies to my state.
A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
Well in New York they have a fine tax for everything!
I know of 3 of my friends and 1 family member that are heading out of California. They’ll be gone by the end of March 2017. One family is moving to Missouri and the others are moving to Texas. There’s nothing keeping them here and they’re going to do it. I don’t blame them, I envy them really. I wonder if Cher and Barbra have packed and ready to go to Canada? I need the extra breathing space.
@Goldenfox – I thought Barbra was going to Australia when Trump wins. That would be better than Canada as far as I’m concerned because it is farther away from here.
But I’d settle for Canada if she’d just STFU!
And why would anyone want to live in a state governed by His Doucheyness, Andrew Cuomo? This is someone who simply doesn’t care about New York State being overpriced, overtaxed, and having no jobs and a crumbling infrastructure. No, Andy Boy is all about giving unskilled, surly, uncaring retards $15 an hour, raising taxes, taking away guns, kissing LGBT ass, and banning fracking. I regard him as the most useless piece of shit ever to preside over the state. I can totally understand why Kerry Cuomo divorced his lame ass. And as much as I loathe Bawwy, I think my contempt for Douchey-Douche burns even more white-hot.
BTW, it is now 5 years, 5 months, and 15 days since the New York State Court unions have had a contract. Fuck that motberfucker.
@Uncle Al: I think she said either Australia or Canada. I betcha anything it will be Canada. She doesn’t want to get too far away from Gollywood. It’s just a threat, they all threaten to leave and they never do. It’s just too hard for them to do it. However, take their citizenship away if and when they do leave.
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Barbra-Streisand-Ill-move-to-Australia-Canada-if-Trump-wins-presidency-466328
greetingsfromyonkers, Looking for a little edumacashun here.
I was under the impression that the power unions held was the strike and that the union was responsible for getting the contracts – meaning, that’s their job – a collective’s head and mouth.
How is it that you’re not mad at the union? Of course the opposition plays out not having a contract – that’s their position to play.
It seems your anger is better placed on the ineffectual union.
What am I missing?
I left in 2000, never to return, except to the mountains on vacation.
Like MD. It’s a fucking cesspool. Except for the mountainous ( 🙂 )
and bearing lands. But it’s still all run in Annapolis. By scumbags.
Dadof4:
I cannot go on strike because of New York’s Taylor Law, which imposes heavy fines on civil servants who strike. When the NYC transit workers struck for three days in 2005, their entire contract raise was eaten up by Taylor Law fines.
Believe me, my union is a piece of work, but I am not blaming them because it’s the state that is failing to negotiate in good faith.
You have to understand that I am not looking for a big payday. All I want is a SETTLED CONTRACT. The state needs to make an offer, for or against which the union members could vote. If for, problem solved. If against, binding arbitrators are called in and the contract gets settled that way.
If I am due money from 2011, I should have been paid that money then. I shouldn’t have to wait 5-1/2+ years for it. For Cuomo to let the contract slide for this long marks him as an irresponsible disgrace.
Also BTW it’s not just my union. There are many different unions with court employee members. Several other unions are in the same predicament.
Trouble is, many are moving to Redstates and bringing their leftist ways with them. Ran into one yesterday that was bitching about the cabs and lack of public transportation. WE DRIVE OUR OWN CARS ROUND HERE DIMWIT!!!
Diogenes- That’s so true! If I see a cab around my area I always wonder, “what the fuck are they doing out here?” lol
If they want to vacate NYC and move out of state, but want public transportation like NYC, then they need to emigrate to Havana. Fit right in, riding in those 1950s autos and cabs all fitted up with the bouncing hydraulics. Or some maybe, maybe not. Just be careful so you don’t wind up in their involuntary organ donation program.
Thank you GFY.
That Taylor law seems to be a union buster. Kind of surprising for a northern state.
Another law should be promoted by the union addressing any avoidance of paying what is owed.
Another question: What is the union even able to do for you if they have no real negotiating power? IOW – What are your dues doing for you lately?
Dad,
If I had the time/energy, I would contact my state assemblyman in Albany and ask him to introduce a bill that would penalize the state in a situation like this by imposing a fine on late-settled contracts. For example, have the state cough up 1% on the amount of the retroactive raises for each year the contract is late.
This would be a fair reward for the patience employees would have to have while waiting for these incompetent nincompoops to deliver the goods, but, more to the point, it would provide an incentive for the state not to drag its heels in making an offer. The fine would go up until the date of the offer, BTW.
And don’t get me going about the union dues. $500+ yearly that I could better use for other things, since my salary has remained the same since 2013 and I am starting to experience serious difficulties with my finances as a result.