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This is utter nonsense. Outlaw tips and make them subject to normal minimum wage.

What a nonsense article. The rich paid more because they've made 10 trillion on the market while normal people were busy getting wrecked by inflation. The rich don't pay income taxes on market gains, they pay capital gains taxes. I can't believe idiots fall for this stuff.

My cousin lived in Texas until last year. He's an ENT and his youngest kiddo is a 2yo girl. Doctors are in short supply, they can move wherever they want just like IT workers. He moved for the sake of his daughter, even though she was only two at the time.

My company is offering priority relocation on any workers that are located in states that ban abortion. That contributed dramatically to the closure of the Houston office.

Red / MAGA policies are unpopular with a majority of college graduates. From everything I have seen in read, there is a brain drain going on that isn't immediately evident or being actively reported on. It will be blatantly obvious in the coming years though.

Heck, My sister lived in Orlando and they moved back to Michigan when they couldn't get a vaccine for their toddler because of DeSantis, and because of book banning and other crazy with the schools.

In the case of Houston, The extremist abortion bans and what it is doing to women. Also in the case of Houston, the corrupt Paxton situation. Information technology folks want nothing to do with that kind of stuff, and they can basically live where they want, so those kinds of policies are driving IT folks out and that was the main thing driving Houston. It is also driving out doctors. If You look into the statistics since the road decision, doctors are already leaving red safe because of the anti-science anti-vax stuff. Now with abortion bans etc. that has further accelerated the exodus of medical professionals from these red states. Go pull up the doctor to patient ratios for Red cities. basically every red city is declining and blue cities and states are increasing.

I absolutely agree New York taxation It is a part of it. any of these big cities with increased taxes, if a business has moved to remote work and doesn't need a physical presence there, why would they continue to do business there and pay those higher taxes. but that's a universal thing, many many big cities have dedicated separate taxes, hell even Pontiac Michigan has separate taxes, lol.

Agreed. New York is on the decline. It's not really to do with New York itself though - Covid has hammered all big cities in the USA. Remote work made companies realize they can get the same work done without the crazy cost of paying for workspace. See the same in 3 other cities I have customers - Houston has an ongoing exodus of higher paying jobs due to unpopular Texas policies combined with remote work. I used to go there on a monthly basis. Our office there closed in December, and we're a leading IT company. Raleigh NC is another example like that, but not quite as bad. Basically any city with a high percentage of jobs that migrated to remote work have been hit hard. What follows those jobs leaving is decline of all the restaurants and other businesses that depend on those folks living there and spending money. I have one co-worker that moved from Houston to Sault St. Marie Michigan - wayyy up north. He literally got in a bidding war for a house up there. Pre-covid that would have never happened. I have another peer that lived in Detroit proper, and is now living on the Oregon coast a stones throw from CA. Of course these are all anecdotal accounts, but the stats I've read all point to a system change away from urban centers prompted by remote work. I know that's what it was for me too.

Cool. Now pass a law requiring gun insurance. I keep hoping to see that. Ain't nothing in the Constitution preventing that. I'll gladly pay it.

In other news, there was another time red States grouped together in support of slavery. In that instance the red states lost too.

HUGE

France is now on the same track as Italy and others now, with birth rates taking a nose dive from 2015 and again another 13% drop just from 2020. Their immigration system is just as much a mess as the U.S. too. It'll be interesting to see where they go from here. Sadly a good bet they move the same directly as Italy, into a population death spiral.

Rasmussen = exclusively old people. Talk about a worthless survey.

Meanwhile, discounting seniors watching Fox News, everyone else is watching the GOP kill a bi-partisan bill meant to actually fix the problem. Why? Because the House of Insurrectionists hasn't the spine to stand up to cult-leader Trump. Trump sees immigration as the only thing he can flog as an election issue, given the economy, inflation, jobs, gas prices, wage increase, etc. are all doing great. If legislators address immigration, he can't do his "build the wall" chant.

The UK is about 20 years ahead in the decline of religion. My friend Iain has had two churches close their doors in the last 15 years. He's in his mid-fifties and has mentioned him and his wife are the youngest couple left attending their current church. They have to drive 30 minutes one-way to get to there now. Basically the indoctrination loop broke in the UK a very long time ago, and without teaching kids to believe in invisible nonsense from a very young age... boom, no more religion.

UK isn't like the USA - you can't annoy people with this nonsense in public. Why they'd bother writing an article about it, unsure.