more generally blue welfare states are fucked long run for the following reason remote work is killing agglomeration effects that have made living in specific cities important. maybe not for good but quite a lot on the margin
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if you want to run bloated bureaucracies you need to be able to trap and tax wealthy people to fund them if such wealthy or high-earning people become dramatically more mobile its a neat and tidy race to the bottom as far as taxation is concerned
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possibilities: 1. Usgov takes over brokeass states bureaucratic functions which when you think about it would make everything even worse welp 2. That doesnt happen and things become good actually hell yes for pedestrial voting
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Is this more than Raleigh usually grows July and August (which it does) ? What is baseline?
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The flip side is all those NYers setting up shop everywhere else in the country & saying: “This place isn’t quite the same as Manhattan; maybe we can change things up if we vote out that awful Republican mayor...” Then instead of a Rorschach gif, you can use this one :pic.twitter.com/rMbQFSxdSJ
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I think this only happens at sufficient concentrations of new yorkers otherwise my guess is they blend in real fast preference cascade's and all
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This kind of tax flight isn’t common empirically. https://web.stanford.edu/~cy10/public/Jun16ASRFeature.pdf …
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there are at least two important reasons that doesnt matter here I leave them as an exercise for the reader
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