Taxed-out New Yorkers are voting with their feet, with a staggering 1.6 million residents fleeing the state over the last decade, a new report found.
That’s as if the entire populations of Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, White Plains and West Babylon combined had packed up and left.
For the second consecutive decade, New York led the nation in the percentage of residents leaving for other states, according to the report by the Empire Center for State Policy.
The population loss is “the ultimate barometer of New York’s attractiveness as a place to work, live and do business,” said the report’s co-author, E.J. McMahon. “It’s the ultimate indication that we’ve been doing things wrong.”
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Any chance they can start reconverting Brooklyn and Queens back to farmland so we can get Halav yisrael locally? It’s been less than a century since the last cow (as a milk giving permanent resident) left Brooklyn?
If we get upstate to empty out (they’re the biggest losers in New York’s anti-business policies), maybe we can sell it back to the Indians at a profit?
Or New York could lower taxes and stop its “jihad” against private sector businesses, especially manufacturing and other sorts of “blue collar” jobs – but that’s being silly.