Escape From New York? High-Taxing Empire State Loses 3.4 Million Residents in 10 Years

From CNS News: Escape From New York? High-Taxing Empire State Loses 3.4 Million Residents in 10 Years

New York State accounted for the biggest migration exodus of any state in the nation between 2000 and 2010, with 3.4 million residents leaving over that period, according to the Tax Foundation.

Over that decade the state gained 2.1 million, so net migration amounted to 1.3 million, representing a loss of $45.6 billion in income.

Where are they escaping to? The Tax Foundation found that more than 600,000 New York residents moved to Florida over the decade – opting perhaps for the Sunshine State’s more lenient tax system – taking nearly $20 billion in adjusted growth income with them.

Over that same time period, 208,794 Pennsylvanians moved to Florida, taking $8 billion in income.

“Many of these New York and Pennsylvania residents no doubt moved to Florida for the warm weather,” says the foundation, a nonpartisan research group. “[B]ut many more may have moved there because the state does not have an individual income tax, an estate tax, nor an inheritance tax.”

The Tax Foundation has created a “migration calculator” based on data from the Internal Revenue Service, tabulating the number of individuals moving between states each year, and income affected by the shifts.

The calculator shows that 612,520 people renounced their citizenship in New York State and moved to Florida in the 10-year period, taking with them $19.7 billion in adjusted growth income.

Between 2009 and 2010 alone, 40,195 New York residents moved to Florida, taking $1.3 billion in income.

According to the group, New York ranked second among the states for the highest state and local tax burden in 2009. The Empire State was ranked highest for tax burden every year from 1977 until 2006, except in 1984 when it was ranked second.

New York State has a progressive personal income tax rate ranging from 6.45 percent to 8.82 percent for those earning over $2 million. Sales varies by county, and is between seven and eight percent. In Manhattan, the sales tax is 8.875 percent.

According to the Retirement Living Center, which examines tax burdens by state for those nearing retirement, New York also levies a gasoline tax at 49.0 cents per gallon and a cigarette tax of $4.35 per pack, along with an additional $1.50 per pack in New York City.

New York is also one of 17 states plus the District of Columbia that collects an estate tax, with a $1 million exemption and a progressive rate from 0.8 percent to 16 percent.

In 2007, New York State collected $1.1 billion from its estate and gift taxes, the highest of any of the states, according to the Tax Foundation.

California is also known for more onerous taxes and regulations, and the foundation shows similar trends of migration from there to other states like Texas and Arizona.

The Tax Foundation ranked the Golden State sixth highest in the nation for state and local tax burden in 2009.

Between 2000 and 2010, the most recent data available, 551,914 people left California for Texas, taking $14.3 billion in income. Texas has no state income tax or estate tax.

A total of 48,877 people moved to Texas from California between 2009 and 2010 alone, totaling $1.2 billion in income. Another 28,088 from California relocated to Nevada and 30,663 to Arizona, a loss of $699.1 million and $707.8 million in income respectively.

Overall, California had the most departures between 2009 and 2010 – 406,883 people, representing a loss of $10.6 billion in income. Over that year 365,763 people moved there, representing a net loss of 41,120 residents.

Since 2000 1.2 million more people have left California than have moved there, the second biggest net loss, after New York.

Florida, meanwhile, had a negative net migration of 966,934 between 2000 and 2010 – meaning nearly a million more people moved to the state than left. Texas also has a negative net migration – 807,552 – during the same time period.

Florida and Texas rank the two lowest in net migration over the decade, followed by North Carolina, Arizona and Georgia, each of which has a negative rate.

The Tax Foundation acknowledges that taxes are not the only reason to flee a state. “Taxes are one of hundreds of factors that go into a person's decision to move,” it says on its website. “Others include age, technology, job prospects and the quality/quantity of government services provided.”

The foundation also points out that the migration calculator is not definitive. “A true study that sought to quantify the importance of taxes for locational decisions would need to account for as many other factors as possible, in addition to possible serial correlation issues between variables, especially taxes.”

Trickery or Force of Arms?

All throughout history - on any continent - one people has driven out another not by "trickery" but by force of arms. The Native Americans did not live in a paradise in the US before Caucasians came - many different tribes hated each other and fought each other constantly. The Conquistadors were able to take over Mexico so easily the Aztecs had enslaved several other Indian tribes and used them for sacrifice. (Little recking what the Spaniards whom they helped would do to them.)

Point being, we didn't take California, Colorado, Texas or Arizona by trickery, but rather by superior martial ability. (I assume Farrahkan is talking about the USS Maine, which was blown up...either by Spaniards or by Americans hoping to provoke a war). But it owuld have happened regardless.

Calypso Louie on "White Mexicans"
RUSH: Calypso Louie. Louis Farrakhan says it's, "'Sad That Mexico Lost California, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico' Through American 'Trickery;'" but he said payback is coming, because, "Soon Whites 'Will Be the Minority' In the Country They 'Took' -- The day before Memorial Day, Nation of Islam leader [Calypso] Louis Farrakhan lamented that Mexico had lost territory to America due to the Mexican-American War and disparaged American military action around the globe.'"

He was "in San Diego [speaking to] a partially Hispanic audience. [He] began by disparaging 'White Mexicans' of Spanish decent before announcing that 'Africans were in that part of the World [Mexico] maybe before [Mexicans] got there.'" Did you know that, that there were blacks in Mexico before the Mexicans got there? Of course there were no Mexicans. It was the Spaniards. Then Minister Farrakhan "lamented that illegal Mexicans are called 'aliens' and declared that Americans 'ought to be praising the Mexicans because we living on land that was once theirs.'"

And that's when he "went on to declare that he was 'sad that Mexico lost California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado' after the Mexican-American War 'trickery.'" Then he said it's payback time because "white people will soon 'be the minority in their own country that they took from the native people.'" Now, we sit here and we laugh at this stuff, but we're talking about somebody's got a sizeable audience. We're talking about somebody that wields a fair amount of influence within his community.

Yeah, we've had our share of fun with Minister Farrakhan, and we've laughed at him, but this is serious stuff.

The USS Illinois is NOT all female

But even if it were, so what? Properly trained women seamen are just as good as male seamen.

But I do wish Rush would vett these things before he makes his announcements. (For example, if he'd read the link that is at his website, no where there does it mention it will be an all-female crew. According to somebody at Hannity.com, that was just an erroneous rumor by The Hill - who really should check *their* facts first, too!

Moochelle Sponsors All-Female Submarine
RUSH: Michelle Obama is the sponsor of the Navy's first submarine with an all-female crew. Not kidding. Michelle Obama is sponsoring the USS Illinois, the first Navy marine to be staffed by an all-female crew. No seamen on board. I am not making this up: The first US submarine without seamen. And Michelle Obama is sponsoring it. It's the USS Illinois. It has an all-female crew, but again we were on the cutting edge here. Years ago we suggested the All-American First Cavalry Amazon Battalion. Now the Navy has finally gotten around to implementing it with Moochelle in charge.

29 May 2012, Tues, Rush Limbaugh headlines

--Obama to Wage Campaign Based on Fear
--Predictable Sunday Show Lies from Libs
--How Many Jobs Has the EIB Network Created?
--The Wonder of the Golden Gate Bridge
--Americans Want Wealth Creation Over Job Creation
--WaPo Columnist Tries to Intimidate "the Limbaughs"
--Photos from TIBT Contest Winners
--While We Thrive, Liberal Media Fails
--Blabbermouth Schultz: Wisconsin is Dry Run
--Dems Organize Hecklers to Tell Romney to Get Out of West Philadelphia Neighborhood
--Why the Left Denigrates the Military

Stack of Stuff
--Social Jet Lag: Waking Up to Alarm Makes You Fat
--Moochelle Sponsors All-Female Submarine
--New South Beach Diet
--Calypso Louie on "White Mexicans"
--Study: Climate Skeptics Have More Knowledge
--NYC Taxes Drive Away 3.4 Million Residents in Ten Years

Obama's ex-girlfriend: what her diaries reveal

A sentence from the diary is shared - a sentence that I find it difficult to believe a college girl would write - sounds more like what someone would write for a novel...

From Christian Science Monitor: Obama's ex-girlfriend: what her diaries reveal

It could be anybody’s worst nightmare: The diary of an ex-girlfriend or boyfriend suddenly comes to light in a very public way, available for all the world to read.

But for President Obama, whose ex-flame Genevieve Cook comes to life via her private writings in a new biography of the president, the window into the young Mr. Obama may be a plus.
Obama already has a cool image that the Romney campaign is trying to counter. Ms. Cook’s thoughts from the mid-80s, when she and the future president were in a relationship, may only add to that mystique. In her journals, she describes a thoughtful young man, at times emotionally distant, trying to sort through his racial identity and chart an ambitious future.

She also paints a picture full of images and scents that may shout TMI – Too Much Information – but given the buzz around the book, it’s clear the public is interested.

An example: “I open the door, that Barack keeps closed, to his room, and enter into a warm, private space pervaded by a mixture of smells that so strongly speak of his presence, his liveliness, his habits – running sweat, Brut spray deodorant, smoking, eating raisins, sleeping, breathing.”

Cook’s words come to us via Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss, whose book “Barack Obama: The Story” comes out in June. Mr. Maraniss interviewed both Cook, the daughter of an Australian diplomat, and the president for his portrait, but it’s Cook’s impressions of her boyfriend starting in late 1983, when their relationship began, that add texture to the young Obama already revealed in his memoir, “Dreams From My Father.”

An excerpt of the book appears in the June issue of Vanity Fair, which is just hitting newsstands but already available online.

In his interview with Cook, Maraniss writes, “she remembered how on Sundays Obama would lounge around, drinking coffee and solving the New York Times crossword puzzle, bare-chested, wearing a blue and white sarong.”

But Cook also sensed that something was missing.

“The sexual warmth is definitely there – but the rest of it has sharp edges and I’m finding it all unsettling and finding myself wanting to withdraw from it all,” Cook wrote in her journal on Feb. 25, 1984. “I have to admit that I am feeling anger at him for some reason, multi-stranded reasons. His warmth can be deceptive. Tho he speaks sweet words and can be open and trusting, there is also that coolness – and I begin to have an inkling of some things about him that could get to me.”

Maraniss writes: “When she told him that she loved him, his response was not ‘I love you, too’ but ‘thank you’ – as though he appreciated that someone loved him.”

Cook is white, and she came to realize that the mixed-race Obama “needed to go black.” She also foresaw a mate for him that is almost eerily prescient.

“I can’t help thinking that what he would really want, be powerfully drawn to, was a woman, very strong, very upright, a fighter, a laugher, well-experienced – a black woman I keep seeing her as,” Cook wrote in her diary.
Obama loved Cook – he says so in his memoir, though without mentioning her name. The president has had to answer for the fact that in “Dreams From My Father,” some scenes involving his “New York girlfriend” were in fact drawn from more than one girlfriend. But, as has been reaffirmed, he did explain in the introduction to every edition of the book that he had combined girlfriends into a composite character to simplify the narrative.
That’s a mere bump in the road. The real takeaway from the excerpt published in Vanity Fair is that Obama was already becoming the man we see today – the reserve, the intellect, the striving. And even if reading about the 22-year-old future president’s choice of deodorant seems undignified, we can be sure of this: A tell-all by a former girlfriend could have been a whole lot worse.

 

29 May 2012, Tues, SoS Clinton and Staff Schedule

As of 9.57 am mountain time, SoS Clinton's schedule has not been posted.

29 May, 2012, Tues, Pres and VP Schedules

10:30 am	http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule       The President receives the Presidential Daily Briefing Oval Office Closed Press
11:00 am	The President meets with senior advisors Oval Office Closed Press
2:45 pm	The President meets with Secretary of State Clinton Oval Office Closed Press
3:25 pm	The President and First Lady honor recipients of the 2011 Medal of Freedom in a ceremony East Room Open Press (Pre-set 2:30PM – Final Gather at 3:00PM – North Doors of the Palm Room)
5:00 pm	The President meets with Secretary of Defense Panetta Oval Office       http://www.whitehouse.gov/schedule/vice-president   No public schedule