The Young FLEE New York City Due To: NO JOBS and HIGH TAXES

Imagine that. Taxes are an actual issue?

ALBANY - Escape from New York is not just a movie - it's also a state of mind.

A new Marist College poll shows that 36% of New Yorkers under the age of 30 are planning to leave New York within the next five years - and more than a quarter of all adults are planning to bolt the Empire State.

The New York City suburbs, with their high property values and taxes, are leading the exodus, the poll found.

Of those preparing to leave, 62% cite economic reasons like cost of living, taxes - and a lack of jobs.

"A lot of people are questioning the affordability of the state," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.

An additional 38% cite climate, quality of life, overcrowding, a desire to be closer to family, retirement or schools.

Overcrowding? Really? Isn't it true that one primary goal of Leftists is to squeeze, crush and collapse as many persons as possible into as minimal a "footprint" as possible, in order to minimize the "impact" upon the environment?

Would that explain Chicago? Would that explain Carbrini Greens? Would that explain the total disintegration of Detroit? So it comes as a complete and total surprise that people don't want to live cheek-by-jowl with each other?

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage." - Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins, "Bullet With Butterfly Wings"

Even in 2009: taxes.

No.

Per Demorats, you can never spend too much, and you can never tax too much.

BZ