It's always puzzling how Republicans crow and cheer about how residents of CA and NY are "fleeing" for TX and FL. Two vastly blue states are sending it's supporters to swell the ranks of red states don't exactly seem to be a like a thing conservatives would be proud of. Seeing the long game must not be an option.
Republicans "crow and cheer" about that, because it shows that they were right that certain liberal policies SUCK. Who wants to pay over $4 for gas? I don't.
And I LOVE TAX BREAKS. There's a reason military people re-enlist overseas in combat zones: THEY GET ALL THEIR MONEY (especially signing bonuses).
They also have their home of record in a no-state-tax plan, when possible. Even when I was stationed in spots with state/commonwealth, county, and city income taxes, I didn't pay ANY OF IT, because Florida was/is my home of record.
I get this.
But I don't think they are sending supporters, they are leaving due to certain conditions.
But it's also odd that people would flee a state, then vote for the same types of folks that caused the conditions that made them leave.
As my favorite pastor said about the Exodus,
"It took days to get the Israelites out of Egypt. But it took FORTY YEARS to get Egypt out of the Israelites."After four hundred years of bondage, the Israelites are freed from Pharoah's grip. Two months after being delivered, they waxed poetic about Egypt, built a golden calf, and want Moses (the very deliverer for whom they prayed) EXECUTED.
Plus, we've all sadly heard about the battered woman who leaves her abusive man.....only to run right back to him or find another jerk just like him.