One-quarter of the Massachusetts population is considering leaving the state?
Surely that number can’t possibly be true. It’s got to be a lot higher percentage than that.
This survey was commissioned by the Fiscal Alliance Foundation (FAF) of 750 registered voters in the state. It was conducted earlier this month.
“The poll asked voters if they are considering or have made plans to leave Massachusetts to reside somewhere else and nearly 1 in 4 voters responded that they are.”
Granted, the FAF is a conservative group, opposed to the so-called millionaires’ tax which will be on the statewide ballot in November. But I still believe the pollsters are lowballing the number of people who want out of this benighted Commonwealth.
When it comes to trending in the wrong direction, Massachusetts traditionally fights way above its weight class. During the Panic, under the abysmal leadership of Gov. Charlie Baker, the state was at times simultaneously number one in the nation in unemployment and number three in the death rate.
But an even better gauge of just how quickly Massachusetts is failing is the annual survey by Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of the migration of taxpayers and what the Wall Street Journal calls “aggregate adjusted gross income between states.”
Remember, this is only about taxpayers, that is, people who work for a living, who produce the goods and services consumed by the non-working classes, i.e., Democrats.
Massachusetts currently ranks 15th in…
