Here’s a funny story from the New York Post. (H/T National Review via ECM)
Excerpt:
On top of the city and state payroll tax, Social Security and Medicare [small-business owner John Logue] pays for employees, Logue said the city also hits him with a slew of permit fees. He recently had to pay $50 to obtain a certificate to collect sales taxes for the city and the state. In the past, it was free. He also pays the city to have a restaurant certificate, an exhaust-system permit and an illuminated-sign permit.
Logue said his [government-issued] water bills have also increased by nearly 50 percent in the last three years. Currently, he pays $1,600 every three months to the city.
“I’m getting to the point where I’m thinking about leaving New York,” he said.
And Kevin D. Williamson adds:
If you want to know where the future is headed, look where the people are going. And if you want to know where the people are going, check with U-Haul. Here’s an interesting indicator, first noted by the legendary economist Arthur Laffer: Renting a 26-foot U-Haul truck to go from Austin to San Francisco this July would cost you about $900.
Renting the same truck to go from San Francisco to Austin? About $3,000. In the great balance of supply and demand, California has a large supply of people who are demanding to move to Texas. There’s a reason for this.
Yes, prices rise when there is a high demand and supply is the same.
I once had a job interview at Fidelity in Boston, MA, and I remember going up the elevator with someone who commuted in every day from New Hampshire to avoid the taxes. And I remember thinking – this guy probably votes Democrat like everyone else in Boston.And shortly thereafter, New Hampshire turned blue and is now somewhere down in the gutter.
Why do Democrats do this to themselves? Anyway, the whole country will be like New York and California if more of these crappy bills pass, and where will we run to then? We’ll be stuck until the next election, and it serves us right. I think a good long period of suffering under Obama is just what we need to learn the importance of economics – the hard way.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
And shortly thereafter, New Hampshire turned blue and is now somewhere down in the gutter.
Really, do you have to rub it in?
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Well, I am sorry to be mean, I am just so disappointed in the “Live Free or Die” state. I wanted to move there and interviewed for a job in Dover, NH. But didn’t take it, because of your new governor.
And I didn’t say YOU were responsible for it. It’s all those Democrats from Massachusetts that moved to your state and then re-enacted the same policies that ruined their state. It’s like Californians fleeing for Texas and then re-enacting the same policies that ruined California.
Socially permissive policies, especially ones that destroy families, mean more taxes, and bigger government. Someone has to pay for the fallout of rejecting traditional moral standards.
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Actually, CA has managed to seriously damage CO and MT by serving as refugee camps for the lunatics from the Golden State.
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What state would you live in if you could choose? I would like to live in Alaska, South Dakota, or northern Alabama – but I’ll probably end up in Texas unless I move to India. Texas has more computer science jobs.
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I think, at this point, it’d have to be TX or WY–Alaska is just too far away from…everything. (It’s too bad about Cali: the weather in SoCal is just so nice but, man, does it suck in pretty much every other way.)
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The other alternative is to stay right here. I was planning on moving to South Carolina, but then spring time came and I realized that I didn’t want to move. The beauty of this state is staggering; I want to enjoy every moment of it. There is a movement afoot to effect change through the restoration of personal and political values as well as fiscal responsibility. We can all do this.
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