Red States Out Perform Blue States On Economy

[Scataphagos]

Quote from Tsing Tao:

...Incidentally, I moved because of taxes. I left Maryland for Florida.

FWIW... when you see a table of "Total Tax" collected by states, nearly all come in around the same 9%-ish... through a combination of Income, Property, Sales taxes. (In states with no income tax, they usually have much higher property taxes to make up for it.)

It can be to one's advantage to live in one place or another depending upon how much income they have or property they own.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Quote from Scataphagos:

FWIW... when you see a table of "Total Tax" collected by states, nearly all come in around the same 9%-ish... through a combination of Income, Property, Sales taxes. (In states with no income tax, they usually have much higher property taxes to make up for it.)

It can be to one's advantage to live in one place or another depending upon how much income they have or property they own.

Somewhat. For instance, in New Jersey (where I am originally from) the property taxes are some of the highest in the nation. Additionally, sales tax is 7% and income tax (for my bracket) was just over 6%.

Here is Florida, I pay considerably less property tax for the same size house, no income tax and sales tax is the same as NJ. Overall, I keep considerably more income for myself.

It probably has something to do with the lack of unions in Florida, though I've never really researched all of it.

 

[Covertibility]

Quote from Tsing Tao:

Who said anything about black helicopters other than yourself?

The census not asking relevant or up-to-date questions is not surprising. The BLS has some of the same issues in it's reporting in the private survey. Government simply does not ask relevant questions sometimes, and can frequently be out of date with it's reporting methodology. Claiming people do not move to another state for better taxes or expenses simply because the question is not on the census list is idiotic, even for idiots such as yourself.

Incidentally, I moved because of taxes. I left Maryland for Florida.

If taxes were a major reason, the column labeled "OTHER" would have a majority of the points.

You just don't want to believe the data. In the real world, people don't move because of taxes.

 

[bigarrow]

I think a more correct statement would be most people don't move because of taxes.

 

[pspr]

Quote from bigarrow:

I think a more correct statement would be most people don't move because of taxes.

Ah, restate it from the negative side. Maybe a better and fairer way to say it would be:

"Some people do move because of taxes."

Oh, wait. That's what the thinking people in this thread have already been saying.

 

[Covertibility]

The funny thing about the poverty charts shown on this thread is that no one bothered to look at the dates. My graph was pre Great Recession and the other graph was post Great Recession. It takes roughly 7-10 years for an economy to recovery from a systemic banking crisis to return to the norm, which means poverty should revert back to my graph.

History shows that poverty is predominately a republican southern state phenomenon:

 

[pspr]

Quote from Covertibility:

The funny thing about the poverty charts shown on this thread is that no one bothered to look at the dates. My graph was pre Great Recession and the other graph was post Great Recession. It takes roughly 7-10 years for an economy to recovery from a systemic banking crisis to return to the norm, which means poverty should revert back to my graph.

History shows that poverty is predominately a republican southern state phenomenon:

Historically it was the poor DEMOCRAT south. LOL

 

[Lucrum]

Quote from Covertibility:

...History shows that poverty is predominately a republican southern state phenomenon:

 

[Spike Trader]

go look up the meaning of paradox.

 

[LEAPup]

Quote from Clubber Lang:

Thanks for posting a map to prove my point. Blacks and Mexicans bring down every area of the country they inhabit.

I guess only in a disturbed liberal mind can blacks and Mexicans have 12 kids while living off the government and somehow this seems like a good thing.

Great post!!! And again, liberalism really is a mental illness. Sadly, it's one that's bringing America to her knees.