Taft Flees California
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(08-24-2012, 11:52 AM)bigfoot Wrote: Pete was Palestinian and I think he may have been a Catholic. Detroit has a lot of Arabs...in fact miss Michigan is Lebanese Rima Fakih from 2010. Google this siren...she is beyond gorgeous...she could tempt the devil himself. Goddess is putting it mildly...

Most (75%) American Arabs are not Muslim.

Quote:While the overwhelming majority of the population of the Middle Eastern region, and, in particular, the countries of the Arab world, are identified as adherents of Islam, the majority of Arab Americans are Christian, not Muslim. According to the Arab American Institute, Christians account for 63% of the Arab American population, while Muslims account for 25%, and the rest of the 12% identify as other religion, or no affiliation.

The percentage of Arab-American Christians are: Catholics (Roman Catholics, Eastern Rite Catholics - Maronites and Melkites) 35%, Orthodox Christians who are at 18%, and Protestant Christians are 10%.
http://www.us4arabs.com/content/view/5/17/
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#22
Here's some more of that great Ivy League logic for you. Rolleyes

The more people who work for a living that flee from your state, the better your state's economy becomes. The people left behind are already poor and therefore can't experience any further decrease in their income.

It's an RA Gold Standard academic study, it must be true....Sad

Quote:Californians Fleeing To Texas "Improves" CA Economy
November 26, 2012 By Kevin "Coach" Collins

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Here's a bit of good news: California's economy is improving! Of course it is not true and this pronouncement comes from a liberal think tank, but hey it sounds so good doesn't it?

What's laughable is that The Rockefeller Foundation and Yale professor Jacob Hacker claim this "improvement" is proven by the fact that the percentage of California's families reporting a major economic loss last year dropped by 1.4%, which is a whole .10% better than the national average. The fact that California is so economically distressed and has been for so long that there are few families left to experience economic losses doesn't seem to enter into Professor Hacker's formula.

Now for some reality: according to those who study the fiscal and economic health of a state, a much more honest measurement is the "U-Haul Index" which examines the cost of moving in or out of a given state. The latest U-Haul Index, the one-way cost of renting a 20 foot truck to go from San Francisco to San Antonio Texas is $1,693, yet making the trip in reverse costs only $983.00 for the same truck.

People are voting again, only this time no amount of voter fraud can change the outcome. Americans are moving with their feet. They are packing up and leaving California and its insane policies for the relative financial safety of Texas. The exodus is being fuelled by higher and higher taxes, higher unemployment (even with Democrats announcing the numbers), forced union membership and a hostile climate for business in California. On the scale of friendliness toward business, California stands the 48th out of the 50 states and Texas is just 9th. The tax burden is 1/3 less in Texas than it is in California.

The percentage of Californians in poverty is growing so far that although it represents 12% of the nation's population, it accounts for 1/3 of all of America's welfare recipients.

In each of the last eight years Texas has been the number one state for inward migration and California has been dead last in this category.

Let the Ivory Tower preach empty words about things improving in California, but the truth looks like things aren't getting better. The voice of the people is too loud to be ignored: California is the place to be from and Texas is the place to go.
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Soetoro can't handle the truth, only instead of crying this time he erases it.

Quote:December 11, 2012
An Embarrassing Metric Disappears
Why are government statistics on taxpayer migration being discontinued?
By Jim Pettit

As the din of America's falling headfirst over the fiscal cliff reverberates across the nation, the Obama administration is quietly killing a key economic metric that tells how, and how many, people are voting with their feet. Since 1991 the Internal Revenue Service has been compiling statistics on filers' addresses, which the agency's Statistics of Income division uses to show who is moving into and out of every county and state in the nation. As you'd expect, the IRS also knows the aggregate income levels of those who move. So the movements of the most fundamental productive components of the economy -- taxpayers -- can be analyzed by journalists and economists, or could until now.

The IRS and the U.S. Census Bureau (which provides technical support in reporting tax migration data) have not made an official announcement as to why the program is being discontinued. So we are left to speculate why such vital economic statistics suddenly got canceled.

Some would be glad if the IRS data simply went away. Blue states with high state and local tax burdens have come out looking bad in recent years. California and New York have been embarrassed publicly, as a steady exodus is underway from both.

Regarding California, the free-market Manhattan Institute for Policy Research concluded in September that "this exodus represents a huge reversal to established patterns of domestic migration, and suggests that the Golden State is no longer perceived by most Americans as the land where dreams come true."

The think tank, which analyzed ten years of IRS data to show that California's population is fleeing to Texas, characterizes the agency's data as the "most useful too" among sources identifying migration patterns. The public-policy ramifications of a declining tax base are clear, according to the Institute: Economic damage ensues when companies, fearing inevitable tax increases, get cold feet in jurisdictions with declining revenues.

Speaking of companies: The state of New York is running a high-profile ad campaign suggesting that businesses are coming back to the Empire State. Maybe some untold numbers are, but more telling is that taxpayers are leaving. In May, the New York Post published "'going Income, Millions Flee New York’s Tax Burden," whose lead was "New York state tops the nation in one key export -- people fleeing high taxes." The article cited the IRS tax-migration numbers, which the conservative Tax Foundation makes available in a web-based application that allows anyone to see easily how many taxpayers there are in each state.

The Post article, which found Florida to be the most popular destination for fleeing New Yorkers, spawned coverage on Fox Business News, where economist Arthur Laffer said: "You have two locations, A and B. If you raise taxes in B and you lower them in A, producers and manufacturers and people are going to move from B to A." Media Matters, a liberal organization, responded with hostility, calling Laffer a "serial misinformer" who makes dubious claims supporting lower tax rates.

Change Maryland, an organization that has clashed with Governor Martin O'Malley, reported IRS tax-migration findings in July, determining that Maryland accounted for the largest taxpayer-migration exodus of any state in the region between 2007 and 2010, with nearly 31,000 residents having left. The report also identified Maryland's key competitor in attracting taxpayers: Lower-taxed Virginia is now home to 11,455 former Marylanders, taking $390 million in taxable incomes during this three-year period.

After receiving widespread attention from prominent media, including National Review, the report's findings prompted a personal, partisan political attack on Change Maryland and its founder, Larry Hogan, by the O'Malley administration.

While it remains to be seen what the official position of the IRS is, unofficially it is suggesting that the problem lies in coordinating with the Census Bureau. It is asking for comments on how people use the data and how important it is, presumably so that higher-ups at the agencies can reverse their decision if necessary.

The very idea of people voting with their feet is uncomfortable to some politicians. Fortunately, others realize the damage that a declining tax base causes and prefer transparency over attempting to delete statistics that reveal the problem.
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Quote:Moving Company Reports People Fleeing Illinois & New Jersey
by Rebel Pundit
9 Jan 2013

The St. Louis based moving company United Van Lines is reporting that Illinois leads the nation alongside New Jersey with the nations highest move out rates.

United Van Lines spokeswoman, Melissa Sullivan told CBS affiliate KMOX in St. Louis, 60.5% of their business comes from individuals and businesses leaving Illinois. She also said, "Illinois has seen more outbound movement every year since" they have been keeping track, beginning in 1977.

The study shows Washington, D.C., the Carolinas, Arkansas, Texas, Oregon and Nevada leading the country with newly inbound residents, and more people moving away from the northeast.

Perhaps Illinoisans are finally fed up with the rampant corruption and abuse of those who hold the power in their state. On Wednesday, the state general assembly swore in three legislators currently facing criminal charges.

Perhaps Illinoisans are also fed up with having their tax dollars spent on legal defense fees for stalkers, sabbaticals for stalkers, and six figure salaries for stalkers who teach one class a semester.
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