As a transplanted Yankee, I can attest to the
paucity of jobs and opportunities in a blue state. I left many years ago, and vowed I would
never live in another one again. To this
day, I meet blue state refugees who relate similar experiences I had decades
ago. Nothing seems to change.
Lately, I’ve noticed a lot of New York license
plates in North Carolina. I can only
hope they’re passing through or just visiting.
If they’re here to stay, we can only pray they’re not a bunch of teat
squawkers looking to leech off of productive citizens.
The citizens of North Carolina kicked the
progressives out of power, and with good reason. They tried to change the Old North State into
a Yankee-esque hellhole. However, an
influx of blue state refugees with redistributive tendencies could change this
mini-renaissance. I’m sure the
totalitarians seeing this mass migration are licking their chops in
anticipation of regaining power.
One must ask, why do blue states fail? Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation
wrote an article on this very subject.
Here is an excerpt:
So, if income redistribution policies are the solution to
shrinking the gap between rich and poor, why do they fail so miserably in the
states?
The blue states that try to lift up the poor
with high taxes, high welfare benefits, high minimum wages and other Robin Hood
policies tend to be the places where the rich end up the richest and the poor
the poorest.
California is the prototypical example. It has
the highest tax rates of any state. It has very generous welfare benefits. Many
of its cities have a high minimum wage. But day after day, the middle class
keeps leaving. The wealthy areas such as San Francisco and the Silicon Valley
boom. Yet the state has nearly the highest poverty rate in the nation. The Golden
State, alas, has become the inequality state.
In a new report called “Rich States, Poor
States” that I write each year for the American Legislative Exchange Council
with Arthur Laffer and Jonathan Williams, we find that five of the highest-tax
blue states in the nation — California, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and
Illinois — lost some 4 million more U.S. residents than entered these states
over the last decade (see chart). Meanwhile, the big low-tax red states —
Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Arizona and Georgia — gained about this many
new residents.
It’s
too bad red states are unable to form their own immigration policies. Australia would have nothing on us.
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