{"id":5688,"date":"2009-10-28T06:23:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T11:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5688"},"modified":"2009-10-28T06:23:17","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T11:23:17","slug":"escape-from-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5688","title":{"rendered":"Escape From New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Yorkers are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/tax_refugees_staging_escape_from_qb4pItQ71UXIc0i6cd3UpK\"> hitting the exits<\/a>.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s over taxes.\u00a0 They&#8217;re leaving in six-digit box lots&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and they&#8217;re leaving over taxes!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s worse is that the families fleeing New York are being replaced by lower-income newcomers, who consequently pay less in taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the ex-New Yorkers earn about 13 percent more than those who moved into the state, the study found&#8230;It all adds up to staggering loss in taxable income. During 2006-2007, the &#8220;migration flow&#8221; out of New York to other states amounted to a loss of $4.3 billion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And they&#8217;re moving&#8230;to <em>low tax states<\/em>!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While New York City and the state were the losers, the Sunshine and Garden States were winners. more than 250,000 New Yorkers who lived in and around the city fled to Florida.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hm.\u00a0 That&#8217;d be a red state, wouldn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Yorkers are\u00a0 hitting the exits.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s over taxes.\u00a0 They&#8217;re leaving in six-digit box lots&#8230; &#8230;and they&#8217;re leaving over taxes! What&#8217;s worse is that the families fleeing New York are being replaced by lower-income newcomers, who consequently pay less in taxes. Overall, the ex-New Yorkers earn about 13 percent more than those who moved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5710,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5688\/revisions\/5710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}