Telling Time: The Holy Spirit
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As one who has lived in places sought by high tax state refugees, the problem is that these same refugees want all the services they had been paying for.
Can't blame for people leaving higher taxes when most of it goes to the Pentagon and its business buddies.
How many Americans have left the States entirely in the same time span?
Just to put the supposed flood of people from CA in context, 25.1 per 10,000 means just 0.251% of the population left the state. That’s “a lot” compared to many other states and it’s just one year, but it’s still not much. And the same is true on the other side, SC added 0.791% to its population, which is not really all that much in % terms - and even less when you consider the dramatically lower baseline population being added to.
Overall, however, these kinds of charts try to imply something about red vs blue, north vs south, etc. What they really show is density seeking equilibrium like you learn in HS chemistry. There are always two factors as to why expensive locations are relatively expense or cheap: supply and demand. Austin can be as expensive as CA because demand exceeds supply in both locations, regardless of tax rates and politics. Supply and the drivers or demand (not like the rest of TX, cheaper for a time, warm, access to educated workforce from big liberal university) are a better way to analyze cost of living than the simplistic partisan lenses these types of context-less charts try to sneak in.
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