Blue State exodus

Excerpt from an opinion piece from the WSJ

An old adage says high taxes don't redistribute income, they redistribute people. For new evidence look no further than migration patterns within the United States, as documented in a new survey by the moving company United Van Lines.

A record eight million Americans -- some 20,000 people every day -- relocated to another state last year. So where are these families headed and why? The general picture is this: Americans are continuing to flee the Northeast and Midwest, while the leading destinations continue to be Southern and Western states.

The United Van Lines study finds that the biggest population loser last year was Michigan, where two families moved out of the state for every new family that moved in. Americans are also fleeing New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois. Without interviewing the departed, it's impossible to know the reasons for this outward migration. No doubt overall economic prospects, climate, quality of life and housing prices play a role.

If you are a "progressive", to what do you attribute the flight from the states that you control and govern?

Does it ever dawn on you that your poor governance results in high taxes & regulation which, in turn, results in high unemployment, high crime, crappy schools & more poverty?

Don't believe me... just look at every inner city in the US. All inhabited and governed by "progressives".

I know there are some liberals out there who read this blog; they're always quick to comment when I have a misspelling or a grammar error on a post but they're always quiet when I challenge them on the pure fact that all the communities they govern...... are shit holes.

Why is that?

Note that I'm just not challenging democrats here, I'm also challenging liberal republicans like our Bob Taft's of the world.

What the hell do these guys say to themselves when they look at a state like Michigan? "Wow, Michigan is turning into a third world country, maybe we should do what they're doing".