Redistribution of misery
In the 1960s, the Democrats were somehow seen as the saviors of the poor, more specifically inner-city Blacks who lived in tenement projects that were crumbling about the residents’ ears. Big city mayors all promised hope and change for inner-city Blacks. Forty years later and what has really changed? Cities have gotten worse. Wracked with crime and filth the cities hemmoraged it’s wealthier residents who fled for the relative safety of suburbs and further. Revenues tanked causing the government to raise taxes again which chased even more people away and drove revenues down even further…well, I’m sure you see the pattern here.
The same thing happened in northeastern and states. It still breaks my heart to drive through western New York State and see miles of empty factories and parking lots sitting idle from the devastation that Mario Cuomo inflicted on a once prosperous rural New York. He welcomed formerly-migrant workers who picked the lush crop of fruit in the Fall, and enticed them to stay on with rich welfare checks. To pay for his social programs, his social justice, Cuomo raised taxes on businesses which simply pulled up stakes and moved south where States welcomed employers with lower taxes.
That has played out across the northeast for decades now, and somehow, no one notices. The northeast liberals have devastated entire States and now they’re coming for your country. Where will businesses flee under an Obama government? Where will the wealthy take their money? It’s no longer a move across town to escape heavy taxes.
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Jonn-
I hear you. Lived In CT and it was the same way. Anaconda, The rubber plant, Newspapers…Insurance. It is depressing and the people, including alot of my relatives are not happy about anything. Sad, but true.
Same with my home state of MA. My hometown used to thrive with GE there. GE pulled out and went south under Carter’s nonsense. It’s now practically a welfare ghost town. Yep, the Dems sure know how to level the playing ground – right into the ground.
Back when I moved back to Rochester in the early 1980’s, Kodak employed over 58,000 people and Xerox was also a major player in the corporate world. Fast forward to 2008 and the University of Rochester is now the largest employer in Rochester, Kodak now employs less that 10,000 in the city where it was founded and Xerox is surviving, but limping along. Part of this has to do with decisions made by the leadership of Kodak and Xerox, but New York State also bears the blame for chasing businesses out of because of confiscatory taxes.
Redistribution of wealth is theft from the successful to fund the deadbeats.