In late 2017, when the Trump administration proposed nixing the federal exemption for state and local taxes, defenders of the policy, mostly from high-tax Democratic states, said that ending it would hurt them by making local taxes more expensive to residents.
Of course, not all Democratic-leaning states are high-tax, heavily regulated environments, and not all Republican-leaning states deliver great services at low prices.
An unfamiliar reader might assume that the state was catching up after years of low taxes and underinvestment.
Summing up this pattern, Gallup observed: "Even after controlling for various demographic characteristics including age, gender, race and ethnicity, and education, there is still a strong relationship between total state tax burden and desire to leave one's current state of residence."
A study by demographer Wendell Cox of net flows of migrants from state to state found that seven of the ten states with the most net out-migration are Democratic: California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York.
A New York state law requires contractors to pay a "Prevailing wage"-essentially, union wages-on the billions of dollars in state and municipal building projects under way.
The Census Department's Supplemental Poverty Measure adjusts state poverty levels by the local cost of living, essentially measuring how many more people wind up in poverty based on state costs.
https://www.city-journal.org/democrat-states-midterms
Of course, not all Democratic-leaning states are high-tax, heavily regulated environments, and not all Republican-leaning states deliver great services at low prices.
An unfamiliar reader might assume that the state was catching up after years of low taxes and underinvestment.
Summing up this pattern, Gallup observed: "Even after controlling for various demographic characteristics including age, gender, race and ethnicity, and education, there is still a strong relationship between total state tax burden and desire to leave one's current state of residence."
A study by demographer Wendell Cox of net flows of migrants from state to state found that seven of the ten states with the most net out-migration are Democratic: California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York.
A New York state law requires contractors to pay a "Prevailing wage"-essentially, union wages-on the billions of dollars in state and municipal building projects under way.
The Census Department's Supplemental Poverty Measure adjusts state poverty levels by the local cost of living, essentially measuring how many more people wind up in poverty based on state costs.
https://www.city-journal.org/democrat-states-midterms
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