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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (768557)

2/9/2014 12:47:04 PM

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We vote with our feet

By Post Editorial Board

February 8, 2014 | 7:29pm

Photo: Reuters

These boots were made for walking, as the song goes. Unfortunately for New York, they’re walking right out of the state, with the latest Census figures showing Florida about to overtake us as the nation’s third-most-populous state.

The Albany-based Empire Center for Public Policy crunched the numbers and found that since 2010 New York has had a net domestic migration loss of 328,538 people.

That means more people moved out of New York than moved into it (not counting inflows from foreign immigration). Other big losers include Illinois, California, New Jersey and Rhode Island.

Why does this matter? It matters because whatever politicians might say about manufacturing or high-tech or natural resources, the key driver of any growing economy is people. And when people take their skills to other states, they are effectively voting with their feet against the status quo.

In fairness to Andrew Cuomo, this is a trend that started well before he moved into the governor’s mansion. The latest figures do not tell us exactly which counties in New York the outflows are coming from. But if the past Census accounts are any key, while most of the outflow comes from downstate, New York City is able to make up for the loss and replenish its population with young foreign immigrants.

Alas, that’s not been the case upstate.

Which helps explain another long-term trend: New York is getting older, and it’s getting older at a rate faster than the rest of the country. Which is not a good portent for the economic future of this state.

Meanwhile, states such as Florida and Texas continue to attract people. It’s not just taxes prompting migration to their shores, though certainly the lack of an income tax in either the Lone Star or Sunshine state has to be a large part of the attraction. These growing states are also creating jobs, and generally offer a lower cost of living. And as a general rule, human beings do not move away from opportunity.

That’s what makes these Census numbers so telling. New York has much to offer, any advantages, including an economy roughly the size of South Korea’s and many world class industries. But the state’s taxes, heavy-handed regulation and generally anti-business ethos are making us less and less competitive by the day.

The Empire Center’s E.J. McMahon says “a state’s domestic migration rate is the ultimate measure of policy successes or failures.”

He’s got that right.

So here’s one idea: Maybe we should demand that every time our pols dip into taxpayer dollars to run ads extolling New York as back in business, they be required to run these Census numbers alongside them.

http://nypost.com/2014/02/08/we-vote-with-our-feet/?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_medium=SocialFlow

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