Some of us in the middle of the country are tired of sending our money to Washington for them to send to the west and east coast. Perhaps succession from the union would help if voting does not. Then let California and New York see if they can scrape up enough money for their big spending ways.

I'm one of those that voted with their feet. When I retired from the Military I could have gone back to the "Socialist Republic of California" but decided to stay in Kentucky because. No State Tax on my retirement, much cheeper cost of living as well as lower Taxes on my taxable income. Less laws that intrude on my Liberties. You would think those in Washington D.C. would watch this migration and figure it out and say "wow this could happen at a National level".

Who is John Galt?

The ability to vote with your feet is by far a more important vote than the one every other year at a ballot box. Too bad that the Progressives took away the greater power of that vote in 1913 with the passage of the 16th Amendment, rendering all but a few of us prisoners of the Federal Income Tax. If all the major taxing power had remained at the state level we would still have a market in governance, giving taxpayers undiminished power.

JG

Exactly!!!

Support the Fairtax, abolish the IRS and return to freedom.

I live in Illinois. People - and jobs - are moving out of state. I would bet it's the same in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut and other Progressive" states. Have you noticed that there are no Liberals anymore. That label is so tarnished no one wants to claim it. How progressive.

Answer to Who is John Galt... http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/08/finding_john_galt.html

Duane: Get Congress to vote for it. They won't because it will cut their throats by making everybody share the load.

JG, I am going as Galt as I can.

When Bill Clinton came in and damaged the military with Don't Ask, Don't Tell, I retired.

Now that Pelosi, Reid and Obama have vitally damaged the economy, I am taking a contracting position overseas. No income tax.

The problem I have with all these people voting with their feet, is that after they have trashed a place with their liberal ideas (California), they then move elsewhere and rather than realizing that the reason they moved there is because it's not liberal, they proceed to re-make the new locale into the place they just left. If you come here, leave your liberal ideas and policies at the border of your old state!

Let's hope that all that's left in these tax and spend states are those feeding off public money...from welfare to illegals to public officials

Warren,

So true. Vermont has the same problem. It's one of the smallest polities in the nation and "progressives" from places like CT, MA, NJ, downstate NY, etc, didn't like living in the "worker's paradises" their states had become, so they moved to then-conservative Vermont to get some of their freedom back. Too bad they didn't leave their politics at home.

They flooded the place to the extent that liberals overwhelmed the native population in local elections, then eventually state-wide elections too. Now the state that gave us Calvin Coolidge sends Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy to the Senate.

Duane posted:

Support the Fairtax, abolish the IRS and return to freedom.

Let's put that in the proper sequence, shall we?

#1 - return to freedom.

#2 - abolish the IRS and

#3 - Support the Fairtax,

Don't forget get rid of the 17th Amendment.

Give the Staes back the Senate as intended.

We relocated from the peoples republic of new york state to God's Country, Wyoming. In Great Neck, NY we had a 75 year old house on 1/3 acre and had a property tax of $23,00 (yes 23 thousand). In Wyoming we have ten acres, a brand new house, and oversized attached 3 car garage, deck, patio and hot tub, with a property tax a little over $2,000 (yes less than 1/10th). There is no state income tax vs 8% or so in NYS. Sales tax in NYS apprached 10%. In WY state sales tax is 4% with counties able to add up to an additional 2%, but it requires a vote of the citizens and must be for a definite purpose and definite time period. When was the last time the peasants in NYS voted on a tax? Plus a traffic jam here is 2 cars or trucks and we are located 10 miles from Cheyenne. We are sometimes stopped by cattle drives (there are real cowboys out here). Just turn off the engine and watch. One draw back, we have to sit in the hot tub in the afternoon and watch the sun set over the mountains. I know it is a tough job, but somebody has to do it.

The problem with some of these people who vote with their feet is that when they get to their new homes they continue to vote with their ballots the same way they did in their prior liberal cesspools and support the same kinds of politicians that ruined their previous homes.

If you are going to leave California to come to Texas, leave your liberal democrat ballot in California.

@Duane and Hard Thought

Should our issue fail come November 2nd...

I'll see you in the valley.

Go Fairtax! If the Federal taxes are brought down, the politicians will have to realize that they can't survive without the consent of the taxpayer.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught

the individual to protect his own

rights; Ameican civilization will

teach him to respect the rights of

others.----William Jennings Bryan

(1860-1925)

@ Hard Thought - Just signed for a second year...hate the hours, but love paying no taxes!

@ Duane - FairTax rocks! I HATE taxes, but I can back a program that allows me to pay as much or as little tax as I want.