Wherever you go, there you are
A friend showed me this article about the relation between taxes and population movement in the US. Basically, people move when taxes get too high. Businesses move, families move.
The states they leave are usually blue states, those that receive them are more likely to be red states. Good for the states getting them, right?
Not necessarily. If the people moving are fans of small government and self-reliance, sure. But if not …
They want all the services that they had back home. And with more and more people flowing into a state demanding their due, they elect people willing to give them what they think they’re entitled to, and we end up blue state broke.
So what’s the answer? Not to keep out people who want to move here but to exercise some fiscal responsibility and make sure the people elected do so as well.
