High taxes kill States and This Country

So when The Leaders decide to Raise Taxes what they really want to do is punish the Rich  and give more services to the poor...So what should any Tax Rate be ?    i don't know, that varies with any area and instance but from the article below anytime people can keep more of their own money they will , and i suspect this isn't just the rich moving out of state.    i am sure that when Albany New York goes from 1/2 million down to 1/4 million as the rest of New York State was doing ( minus New York City) which is explained below then it can't be disregarded, like what is now happening to all these large states like California and Ohio etc.    THE FACT IS THE NEOCONSERVATIVE WANTS TO BUILD THE MILITARY AND DAMN THE COST, AND THE LIBERAL WANTS TO BUILD THE STATE DAMN THE COST, and the rest of us are cast to the fringes.  And as long as they can load more on the packhorse ( the economy and the debt over and above what is brought into public coffers ) they will, and they get theirs just like the states and cities have done and Damn the consequences, because they know we won't take food from the babies mouths or stop building the military for our defense,( no matter who got us in to what war and why) because once they send my son or my friends son to war i have to support it  ..:(    Or once they put the unemployed on handouts and welfare then they create another dependent class who no longer has incentive to go back to work.   So Hubris reigns Supreme :( in that as they build it we must then support forever)  or as my boss used to tell me once we install a system we must forever maintain it so that is an additional cost for a system .   Who among us can argue against what i have just said ????

One more thing , go to http://viewfromthewilds.blogspot.com/2010/12/china-evidence-of-overinvestment.html
 and notice what the Blogger there has documented the ghost cities of China,  it's a great read with great pictures to document, and Spain and other countries around the world have done this same thing .



Published in the New York Post on December 23, 2010
High taxes kill states. There can be no better evidence than the 2010 Census. The states that lost House seats — because they’re shrinking, relative to the nation — had taxes 27 percent higher than the ones that gained seats.
Of the seven states that don’t have a personal income tax, four (Texas, Florida, Nevada and Washington) account for eight of the 12 seats apportioned to the fastest-growing states.
New York and Ohio lost two more seats. Other losers — down one each — are Massachusetts, Missouri, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Louisiana and Iowa. What do they all have in common? High taxes.

Texas, with the second lowest taxes in the nation, gained four seats, Florida picked up two and Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah, and Washington state each gained one. All have low taxes.
The states that lost seats ranked an average of 24th in taxes and had an average tax burden of $2,267 per capita (weighted more toward the states that lost more than one seat).
The states that gained seats ranked an average of 39th in taxes and had an average tax burden (weighted) of $1,788 — 27 percent lower than the losing states.
People vote with their feet and flee to low-tax states. It’s not the climate; it’s the taxes.
In New York, the city grew from 7.3 million in 1990 to 8 million in 2000 to 8.4 million in 2010 — but population upstate shrank dramatically. Some 1.7 million people left New York state in the last decade, the largest exodus any state experienced. Upstate New York is dying, killed by high taxes.
The New York City metro area can grow despite high taxes. It’s the historical center for immigration from overseas, a glittering attraction for migration from within the country and the foremost global city. But upstate has no such offsetting attractions.
Consider Buffalo. From half a million people in 1960, it has fallen to a quarter of a million. It’s lost half its population in 50 years.
The trend is unmistakable: The “losing” states drove out their high-income citizens (and middle-income jobs) with heavier tax burdens. As New York and other high-tax states confront their budget difficulties, they need to be mindful of this trend — lest they wind up taxing their states into oblivion.