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Can you document the link you claim between liberal policies and high cost of living?
by smadge 8y ago
Can you document the link you claim between liberal policies and high cost of living?
- protomyth 8y agoI guess I would read the article that points out the high taxes to support liberal policies is one reason people are moving.
- smadge 8y agoI gathered from the article that the main reason people were moving was because of the high cost of living. Higher taxes certainly are a part of the high cost of living. However, clearly the high cost of housing is the largest contributor to the high cost of living, not taxes.
- davidgay 8y agoOne could easily think that taxes in California are too high, but that in the place one moved to they are too low (assuming they are substantially lower than California of course). So I'm not convinced there's an inconsistency. Personally, I think US+California taxes are too low, especially for high incomes. But I'm undoubtably biased from having grown up in that well-known-haven of high tax rates called Switzerland.
- BurningFrog 8y agoMy impression, if you excuse the broad strokes, is that it's mostly that liberals live in big cities where they have banned housing construction, with resulting exploding housing costs.
- smadge 8y agoI think “NIMBY”ism is bipartisan among affluent homeowners, whose have both an economic and social incentive to prevent new low cost housing in their neighborhoods.
- BurningFrog 8y agoProbably true. It's still the heavily liberal big cities that are the most unaffordable. By far. It's not a subtle effect.