Comments on: Living in the perpetual welfare state http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/02/12/living-in-the-perpetual-welfare-state/ She escaped from the belly of the liberal beast Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:56:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Ymarsakar http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/02/12/living-in-the-perpetual-welfare-state/#comment-20133 Ymarsakar Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:33:13 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/02/12/living-in-the-perpetual-welfare-state/#comment-20133 <B>Our friends on the left say Americans are willing to pay more taxes to get better government services, but their migration patterns reveal the opposite. Governors would be wise to heed these interstate migration trends as they try to cope with what may be one of the worst years in recent memory for state finances. The people who tend to be the most mobile in American society are the educated and motivated -- in other words, the taxpaying class. Tax them too much, and you'll soon find they aren't there to tax at all.</b> That's the problem with freedom, you know. The solution is to obviously restrict and place penalties on people moving out. Be like Berlin before the Wall fell, Book. that's the ticket to utopia right there. Our friends on the left say Americans are willing to pay more taxes to get better government services, but their migration patterns reveal the opposite. Governors would be wise to heed these interstate migration trends as they try to cope with what may be one of the worst years in recent memory for state finances. The people who tend to be the most mobile in American society are the educated and motivated — in other words, the taxpaying class. Tax them too much, and you’ll soon find they aren’t there to tax at all.

That’s the problem with freedom, you know.

The solution is to obviously restrict and place penalties on people moving out. Be like Berlin before the Wall fell, Book. that’s the ticket to utopia right there.

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