Comments on: Maryland millionaires’ massive migration.

By: eburke

eburke — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:52:35 +0000

This: “Of course they have no problem offending the “thinking” community because everything is about “feelings”, right?”, *I* even get

By: Lammo

Lammo — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:24:09 +0000

Dots and dashes – - just a reference to something “opposite” that a politically correct liberal would not want to risk taking on for fear of offending. An obtuse angle from my decidedly off kilter mind. Of course they have no problem offending the “thinking” community because everything is about “feelings”, right?

By: eburke

eburke — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:08:30 +0000

poor ol’ Texas boy as to what this little lingo means in “Texan”. (we’re a little slow sometimes

By: wennejunk

wennejunk — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:03:36 +0000

While I agree many certainly left, what you posted implies the bulk of the loss was due to migration out of state.

However, the next few sentences read:

“No doubt the majority of that loss in millionaire filings results from the recession….(snip)…..The Maryland state revenue office says it’s “way too early” to tell how many millionaires moved out of the state when the tax rates rose. But no one disputes that some rich filers did leave. It’s easier than the redistributionists think.

One of the comments above notes that Federal revenues also declined by 34%, does this mean that the wealthy, who disproportionately bear our tax burden, left the US in substantial numbers?

The only mass migration I know of over the last year has been the illegals – who knew they made so much money and paid it in taxes?

Again, I agree that folks are moving to escape taxation (only the best and brightest come to Texas, please) but the excerpt above doesn’t paint a fair portrayal of what likely really happened .

By: Lammo

Lammo — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:50:55 +0000

if they can they are unable to acknowledge them for fear of offending the dash community.

By: molybdanthan

molybdanthan — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:28:15 +0000

We could have used it over the decades, to spread the word, and fight on our terms. They had all the advantages of mass media, and better demagogues. Their kings have all been naked, but too few were able to give voice to this fact.

Now, we are many. There are radio hosts, a few good journalists, and internet bloodhounds sleuthing for the truth.

By: eburke

eburke — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:09:48 +0000

I love it!

But on a serious note – I truly can’t figure out if they’re just that clueless or what. What’s the old saying about the definition of insanity – doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result? How many times do you have to watch something get screwed up before you connect the dots?

I mean, I know liberalism is all about ‘feelings’ and zippo about ‘thinking’ but, come on, even a blind hog finds an acorn every once in a while.

Sheesh!

By: Lammo

Lammo — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:33:57 +0000

Californication. Seattle is lost, Tacoma and Everett aren’t far behind. They are even trying to bring their horse hockey over to God’s side of the Cascades.

By: eburke

eburke — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:20:46 +0000

I moved to Allen TX when it was just a li’l ol’ goat-ropin’ town of about 1,500. Shortly after we moved there, the explosion northward from Dallas came as people began fleeing the failing schools of Dallas for the discipline and basics which AHS afforded

So, what did these kind folks bring with them? Why, an insistence that the Allen Public Schools be run the same way they were in Dallas (you mean you actually *spank* unruly kids and have prayers before and after football games? OMG!!!!)

I live in complete bewilderment as to how libs can flee the real-world outcomes of their failed lib social experiments and then arrogantly insist that the oasis to which they move because of its ‘quality of life’ adopt, of course, the same failed policies that caused them to move in the first place (Cf. Californians fleeing to UT & AZ)

Are they daft or what? (Ok, never mind….)

By: The_Gadfly

The_Gadfly — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:39:53 +0000

Sadly, they probably only moved across the state line to Virginia. That way they can continue to run their government contracting agencies that qualify for Section 8A set asides. They will of course vote for the same policies that aren’t working in Maryland and not understand why they don’t work in Virginia either.

By: JustLeaveMeAlone

JustLeaveMeAlone — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:15:31 +0000

I was in Chicago last week, and it’s interesting to note the difference in mindset. Amazingly, to me, people seemed to think that the higher taxes were simply the price we all need to pay to “provide services”. A pox on that! I had fun telling people that in Texas, income tax is unconstitutional. That’s personal OR business income tax.

Oh, and then there’s my friends in Boston, who are getting their sales tax hiked again to over 10%, on top of their already ridiculous income tax and property taxes. And as for California, think 1849 in reverse. Even the illegals will be heading home to Baja California.

Meanwhile, I still see construction and help wanted signs in Houston. And no one around here will stand for the kind of crap I saw and heard in Chicago or LA recently.

By: SG_Lominac

SG_Lominac — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:58:43 +0000

To San Antonio in Sept., she’s a manager at USAA and they are deleting their Norfolk office in the more bluish state of Virginia, the same state I fled for Florida. Not to worry, she’s a hard worker. Keep doing what you do liberals, we like the hardworking and rich in the south.

By: SG_Lominac

SG_Lominac — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:58:43 +0000

By: izoneguy

izoneguy — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:08:48 +0000

I need more clients so the millionaires are welcome….

Tall female single blondes are also welcome.

By: kyle8

kyle8 — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:01:59 +0000

leave us alone, there aint nothing here but a bunch of rednecks and poor mexicans.

Really, we suck, and there are no jobs, YOU HEAR ME!

Stay away.

By: izoneguy

izoneguy — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:51:46 +0000

“This situation is of your own creation. When you berate your representatives or senators or presidents for the mess we are in, you are really berating yourself. You elect them,” he said.

By: izoneguy

izoneguy — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:49:31 +0000

It is like the gold rush days….
People are flooding into Texas…
I just took a little trip from Dallas to Kansas.
The minute you leave Texas the only thing that looked busy in Oklahoma were the casinos. The minute I hit Texas again it was
like the switch had been turned on. I think if you want to move to Texas just bring your best, slackers need not bother.

By: djemi

djemi — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:34:17 +0000

Richard Fisher, president of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, said: “Senior officials of the Chinese government grilled me about whether or not we are going to monetise the actions of our legislature.”

“I must have been asked about that a hundred times in China. I was asked at every single meeting about our purchases of Treasuries. That seemed to be the principal preoccupation of those that were invested with their surpluses mostly in the United States,” he told the Wall Street Journal.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5379285/China-warns-Federal-Reserve-over-printing-money.html

By: djemi

djemi — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:32:11 +0000

introduce its own immigration laws, you know as so many poeple, myself included are think of or have already moved there.

By: izoneguy

izoneguy — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:29:29 +0000

Obama has even more reasons to raise taxes….

They don’t get it & I guess they never will….

I wonder how many of those Maryland Millionaires have moved to Texas?