Northeast loses 40% of House seats as people flee high-tax states

[Old Fart]

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.

For entire article: http://washingtonexaminer.com/north...s-people-flee-high-tax-states/article/2554143

 

[tRidiot]

“This result is one of the most dramatic demographic shifts in American history. This migration is shifting the power center of America right before our very eyes. The movement isn’t random or even about weather or resources. Economic freedom is the magnet and states ignore this force at their own peril,” said the report.

And yet Kommiefornia has 53. Damn. Sounds like people love to live there a whole lot more than they love economic freedom.

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

That's why illegal immigration is allowed to run rampant in the southern states, and why Ebola has been "introduced" into Texas. It's to make these states less attractive and keep the population - and representation - in those liberal bastion states.

Your view might be of a different slant.

Woody

 

[MCVetSteve]

I could see that.

ETA: cuz I guarantee this patient from TX is not the first person traveling to an from exposed regions that has attempted to get in the country, just the 1st person TSA was told to allow through.

 

[RETOKSQUID]

Not just taxes and economic freedom. It is freedom in general.

 

[OKNewshawk]

I can attest to that. I fled the People's Democratic Republic of New Jersey over ten years ago. Guess I was a trendsetter!

 

[Lead Slinger]

It's only natural. Not everyone wants drown in a festering cesspool of government waist with bureaucratic tape clogging the drain. Freedom is so popular because it applies to everyone, and so many things. But slavery only compliments the few who keep their boot on the neck of the many. And that is becoming a risky job these days.