High taxes kill...cities...

[billc]

An article from American Thinker about how high taxes hurt cities...

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/progressives_and_their_taxes_kill_cities.html

from the article:

High taxes are bad for cities. Low taxes encourage growth. In fact, between 1980 and 2007, compared to the ten most-taxed metropolitan areas, America's ten least-taxed metropolitan areas experienced three times faster population growth, 2.7 times faster employment growth, and twice as great an increase in personal income. In the latest Cato Journal, economist Dean Stansel observes:

If high-tax, low-growth metro areas like Detroit, Milwaukee, Buffalo, and Syracuse want to be more like high-growth areas such as Dallas, Tampa, San Antonio, and Austin, they should lower their onerous burden of taxation and bring spending under control.
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THIS IS WHY PEOPLE SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO TRAVEL BETWEEN THE STATES. IT JUST ENCOURAGES MORE PEOPLE TO TRY AND KEEP THEIR OWN MONEY. THAT MONEY BELONGS TO THE CORRUPT POLITICIANS, DON'T THEY KNOW THAT.
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[elder999]

An article from American Thinker about how high taxes hurt cities...

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[billc]

Another article on states that have increased job growth:

http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/data-show-majority-of-job-gains-in-red-states/

from the article:

Though admittedly the comparison isn’t apples to apples, it’s worth noting that of the 757,000 seasonally adjusted jobs added in the overall economy this year from January through June, the ten states with the highest percentage employment growth were responsible for well over half, or 390,000 of them, even though they only have about 20% of the nation’s population:



Six of the ten (Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming) have been conservative strongholds for decades. Montana, though its governor and two senators are currently Democrats, has been a red state in all but one presidential election since 1972. The final three highlighted above — Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin — were previously governed by Democrats who were replaced with GOP governors this year. All three are in the early stages of what may be remarkable turnarounds. I call them “the newly-reds.”...

Then there’s Wisconsin. Has any state’s governor ever been vilified as severely and viciously as Scott Walker during his battle with the state’s public-sector unions earlier this year? Walker won’t get a thank-you card from them any time soon, but he should, because the alternative was massive government layoffs, most of which, as the Weekly Standard’s John McCormack has noted, have been avoided:

Walker’s budget repair bill, known as Act 10, is working just as he promised. To make up for a $2.8 billion deficit without raising taxes, state aid to school districts (the largest budget line) was reduced by $830 million. Act 10, Walker said, would give districts “the tools” needed to make up for the lost money as fairly as possible.
… Now that the law is in effect, where are the horror stories of massive layoffs and schools shutting down? They don’t exist — except in a couple of districts where collective bargaining agreements, inked before the budget repair bill was introduced, remain in effect.
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McCormack goes on to explain that schools in Milwaukee and Kenosha have each laid off hundreds of teachers because those districts’ unions “cleverly” concluded contracts which avoided the employee health care and pension contributions contained in Walker’s budget repair bill. Teachers who have lost their jobs might be questioning union leaders’ “wisdom.” Meanwhile, the state’s employment pickup this year is more than triple that seen under Democrat Jim Doyle during all of 2010.

 

[granfire]

actually, past local taxes, cities have little influence on what is skimmed off the top.
That would be sales taxes or some communities charge an 'occupational tax' not sure how they figure it, but it's a kick in the pants to every working stiff.

When city government is run like a business, things get done, in a timely manner and with money in the coffers.
Of course it helps when the poor people live in that other city....

 

[Blade96]

Kind of a black and white statement. Depends on the tax and how they are used. Not all taxes are bad.

 

[billc]

excessive taxes are always bad.

 

[Blade96]

excessive taxes are always bad.

Excessive - yes. Taxes can't be too excessive or too low.

Holy sunlight, did I just agree with billcihak, of all people?? I think i have a fever.

 

[billc]

Is that a fever for cowbell?

 

[Sukerkin]

:chuckles: Scary Man Walken strikes again

 

[Blade96]

heh maybe.

 

[Sukerkin]

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The full version has been blocked on YouTube, thanks to NBC's copyright weenies. Here is another location:

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/80a71ef8cb/more-cowbell