Fleeing Taxation

[Patriot]

FLEEING TAXATION


By
Neal Boortz
@ November 18, 2010 10:01 AM


If you want to see how taxes can affect behavior, look no further than  this study by Americans for Tax Reform. When it comes to population migration, people are picking up and moving from high tax, union-friendly states to states with lower taxes and are right-to-work states.  Here are some details on their findings ...

   Eight states are projected to gain at least one congressional seat under reapportionment following the 2010 Census: Texas (four seats), Florida (two seats), Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington (one seat each). Their average top state personal income tax rate: 2.8 percent.

   By contrast, New York and Ohio are likely to lose two seats each, while Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania will be down one apiece. The average top state personal income tax rate in these loser states: 6.05 percent ...

    The state and local tax burden is nearly a third lower in states with growing populations, ATR found.

    And, as ATR notes, "in eight of ten losers, workers can be forced to join a union as a condition of employment. In 7 of the 8 gainers, workers are given a choice whether to join or contribute financially to a union."

Could it be any clearer? Taxes have consequences. Unions have consequences. When it comes down to it, people want to be able to earn money, and then keep it, invest it, spend it, do whatever it is THEY want to do with it. And they want to be able to do that in an environment where they are rewarded for hard work, rather than in an environment dominated by union goons. It's not all that hard to figure out.