The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.

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Not surprising. Republicans are aggressively anti education. Why would a college educated person move to states that clearly don't value them?

How are you supposed to feel as a doctor or nurse when the state you live in is writing legislation limiting your ability to do your job based off what their religion and personal feelings tell them instead of the science that allows you to do your job?

not only limit their ability to do their job but exposes them to criminal charges too.
 

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Yep people like options. True libertarianism with low taxes liberal gun laws and little cultrual laws like banning abortions and weed smoking.


Libertarianism is awesome if your goal is to ensure education and health care will get even worse, supercharge economic inequality with no safety net and accelerate environmental degredation.

Most serious shortcomings in America (education, health care, wealth inequality, runaway corporate mafeance) are directly tied to it being more libertarian than other major countries. There's a reason why literally no country goes for real libertarianism.


I thought this article was hilarious. Right-wing libertarian trying to prove that libertarianism IS possible, and....


"America was extremely libertarian from the founding until 1860, and still very libertarian until roughly 1930."

So the great example of "extremely libertarian" was while White people were enslaving all the Black folk and killing all the Natives, until Lincoln came in an ruined it.

And then we were still "very libertarian" until 1930, when the three most libertarian presidents of the 20th century (Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover) ushered in the Great Depression (not to mention that was the midst of rampant segregation, rampant child labor, horrific factory conditions, zero safety standards for work or for our food, no social safety net, horrible prison and mental hospital conditions, old people dying destitute).

Is it just a coincidence that our most libertarian presidents are also widely known as three of the worst presidents in history?
 

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nevada :blessed: only blue or purple state in the country with no income tax, and cheap property tax


Yup. Instead they have to rely on a high sales tax that fukks over the poor and working class. And cities/counties have to jack up local taxes and fees to make up for what the state is failing to provide. As a result, taxes in Nevada are wildly regressive and complete screw the poor.

This chart is very on-brand for your gloating:

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Then of course you can't make enough money fukking over the poor to maintain good services, so the education system sucks, health care system sucks, and workers are generally low-skill.

 

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Yup. Instead they have to rely on a high sales tax that fukks over the poor and working class. And cities/counties have to jack up local taxes and fees to make up for what the state is failing to provide. As a result, taxes in Nevada are wildly regressive and complete screw the poor.

This chart is very on-brand for your gloating:

itep-who-pays-graph.jpg






Then of course you can't make enough money fukking over the poor to maintain good services, so the education system sucks, health care system sucks, and workers are generally low-skill.

none of that is my problem, you disgruntled communist :mjlol: and an 8 percent sales tax is completely normal in 2023, in any productive state
 

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none of that is my problem, you disgruntled communist :mjlol:


Of couse, you generally lack compassion, you love your white privilege and don't mind fukking over black and poor people for money in your pocket. I already know how you feel, I'm just making sure you don't give any false impressions of what Nevada is.




and an 8 percent sales tax is completely normal in 2023, in any productive state

Nevada isn't "productive", they have a services-based economy with below-average income and their biggest exports are raw materials which provide little employment. So high sales tax hits people worse than it would in a well-paying state.

Not to mention that Nevada has literally the highest unemployment rate in the country, which hits especially hard when your services and social safety net suck because there's no income tax, but even when you're unemployed and even if don't have anywhere to live, you still paying that sales tax right?
 

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Of couse, you generally lack compassion, you love your white privilege and don't mind fukking over black and poor people for money in your pocket. I already know how you feel, I'm just making sure you don't give any false impressions of what Nevada is.






Nevada isn't "productive", they have a services-based economy with below-average income and their biggest exports are raw materials which provide little employment. So high sales tax hits people worse than it would in a well-paying state.

Not to mention that Nevada has literally the highest unemployment rate in the country, which hits especially hard when your services and social safety net suck because there's no income tax, but even when you're unemployed and even if don't have anywhere to live, you still paying that sales tax right?
why don't you stop crying, and just post the states that are supposedly 'better', so i can laugh at your answer
 

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why don't you stop crying, and just post the states that are supposedly 'better', so i can laugh at your answer


You aren't remotely informed enough to participate in any sort of informed debate, so once someone else starts bringing facts into the picture, you get antsy. Instead of dealing directly with the reality I brought up, you're begging for me to change the subject so you can launch one-liners and ad hominems again.
 

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yeah, i'm sorry i tried to make a positive comment about a blue state with no income tax, and low property taxes. that was such a terrible thing for me to do







Because the low property tax shyt keeps Black folks and other marginalized people poor cac.


You should watch both videos but at least watch the shorter second video cac it's only 4 minutes long.
 
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From what I see in my field, those positions will be filled with foreign professionals.

Im seeing so many Indian (from India) healthcare professionals live in the most shythole states and cities and open successful practices because

1) Im assuming since they're foreign born they don't have a regional/lifestyle preferences outside of making as much money as possible (and they travel wherever/whenever they want domestically and internationally)

And

2) In those same areas there is so little competition among specialists, they can rake in all that sweet sweet government subsidized medicaid money from them hillbillies all for themselves.

But I do feel there will be a breaking point if those benefits are continually attacked
 
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