Failing New York. That's it. Not the Times. New York.

From Real Clear Markets (sister site to Real Clear Politics)

New York Remains a Costly Tax Mess, and It's Getting Worse

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State and local governments in New York, quite simply, are money pits, and no one in government seems to have a clue that anything is really wrong. But millions of people do. After all, New York’s top export turns out to be people to other states. From 2010 to 2016, for example, New York lost 847,000 people net to other states. That came after losing 1.7 million to other states from 2000 to 2009, and 1.9 million from 1990 to 1999. And earlier this year, the New York Post reported, “More people are leaving the New York region than any other major metropolitan area in the country. More than 1 million people moved out of the New York area to other parts of the country since 2010, a rate of 4.4 percent — the highest negative net migration rate among the nation’s large population centers, U.S. Census records show.”

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Then there's the article pointing out that Illinois has 63,000 government workers making over $100k.

And don't get me started on all the companies moving from CA to Texas.

Now, what on earth do these states have in common regarding their voting history over the past 30-40 years?