The New York Post reports that taxpayers are leaving the state in record numbers to avoid high taxes:
More than 1.5 million state residents left for other parts of the United States from 2000 to 2008, according to the report from the Empire Center for New York State Policy. It was the biggest out-of-state migration in the country.
The vast majority of the migrants, 1.1 million, were former residents of New York City — meaning one out of seven city taxpayers moved out.
Why all the moving vans?
The center, part of the conservative Manhattan Institute, blames the state’s high cost of living and high taxes.
This is the same reason prominent and wealthy Brits Andrew Lloyd Weber and Michael Caine have threatened to leave the U.K.
As Pete Seeger would say, “when will they ever learn?”
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