Northeast loses 40% of House seats as people flee high-tax states
BY PAUL BEDARD | SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 | 11:21 AM
TOPICS: WASHINGTON SECRETS TAXES HO– USE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONNECTICUT MASSACH– USETTS NEW HAMPSHIRE NEW JERSEY NEW YORK PENNSYLVANIA
The Northeast, once the nation’s political engine that produced presidents, House speakers and Senate giants including the late Edward M. Kennedy, is losing clout in Washington as citizens flee the high-tax region, according to experts worried about the trend.
The Census Bureau reports that population growth has shifted to the South and the result is that the 11 states that make up the Northeast are being bled dry of representation in Washington.
Critics blame rising taxes in states such as Massachusetts and Connecticut for limiting population growth in the Northeast to just 15 percent from 1983 to 2013, while the rest of the nation grew more than 41 percent.
The biggest impact comes in the loss of congressional representation.
https://washingtonexaminer.com/northeast-loses-40-of-house-seats-as-people-flee-high-tax-states/article/2554143
New Jersey is an expensive place to live and also an expensive place to die.
Big government & big unions= BIG TAXES.
Now that we lost representation, they’ll increse the amount of $$ they take from us and redistribute to other states
…but then again, you dopes keep voting into power people who are against your best interests, so you get what you deserve.
#3. Why are you blindly swinging at your neighbors? When we all move no one will give you a forwarding address.
Tax revenues leave, but entitlement liabilities are fixed costs that never go away. Have fun paying that bill when your population is leaving !
#4 if the dopes keep putting the idiots in power what do you want me to call them.
…and feel free to move away without leaving a forwarding address.
please do it soon.
Dopes? Idiots?
It sounds like your friends have already moved away. If you were nicer you would have people to talk to and you would know that your choice of words do not validate you point. It is not too late to change.
My description of the idiots who vote into office people who are aligned against their own interests in no way changes their actions.
If I call them dopes or geniuses is irrelevant to the actions they have taken.
Additionally “dope” may also describe someone who votes the way their friends vote rather than voting for their own best interests based on facts.
But you can continue to focus on labels rather than on issues…
something that may also be considered as “dopey”.
Political allegiances are very similar to the same allegiances people have with their choices of sports teams and brand of religion. A small number of people, through experiences and deep thinking, change to a different side, but the vast majority stay and defend what they were raised to believe through family and peer indoctrination.
Yep, once a union thug, always a union thug… “Me, me, me” is alive and well in NJ.
Union thugs are a small problem compared to the Retirement Pension Managers who are lining their pockets with taxpayer and hard working Americans money, talk about “Me, me, me” being alive and well those thief’s are alive and well and living large at taxpayer expense!
Brand of religion?
OK got it.
Defend what you were raised to believe through family and peer indoctrination!