Escape from New York

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Study shows the middle-class people are leaving the state of NY in droves. In 2006 the state lost 4.3 billion in taxpayer income.

I think the root cause is that Hillary is no longer the NY Senator. :D But some have a different opinion.

Liberals continue to insist that they can raise taxes ever higher without any effect on behavior, but the New York study is one more piece of evidence that this is a destructive illusion.

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What are these people thinking? Since when has continually raising the price on something led to proportional increases in demand for said product?