Population Shift Has Begun

[Steve Stuck]

These numbers are telling of where the jobs are compared to what media won't report. Economics today is very much distorted by major print media. Now some of these stats have minor implications that drive them up, but the majority of these states that have gained do not submit to unions and have very good tax structures that reward and not punish.

Louisiana is experiencing losses due to Hurrican Katrina. I expect with Gov. Bobby Jindal shaking up the state from the corruption it has had the past couple of decades, the population will be go up and/or the loss of population will be lessoned quite a bit.

Taxes are a big factor and inept bloated governments that are now in debt. I watched many reports of where investors in New York city are now moving south because the city and state are just out of control in spending. Most recently, New York state has a "millionaires tax", now these evil millionaires are shifting out of the state to more friendly pastures.

The beauty of states rights, more states are looking at California which is now bankrupt from one thing, government. Many are now moving to states like Idaho and Nevada. Business's get attacked in California and now cannot effectively run profitably. Government increases since "Arnold" took over has been 32%. Watch California in the next couple of years, major reform maybe on its way.

[Sean Shepard]

Note that Florida, Texas, Nevada have no income tax. Tennessee taxes only interest and dividend income.

New York, California and Illinois are high tax areas states.

Nevada, Florida, Texas, Tennessee and Arizona are considered in (5 of the) top 10 most tax-friendly states. Out of the states losing population, at least 4 of them are among the top 10 most tax unfriendly states.