Investor's Business Daily only confirms what we have suspected for years:
A survey finds that young New Yorkers are planning to leave the state. Meanwhile, a group agitates for a state millionaires tax. Is it possible these items are linked?
According to a Marist College poll, 36% of New Yorkers under 30 have plans to quit the state within the next five years.
More than three in five (62%) who plan to leave say they are being driven out for economic reasons.
Cost of living, an everlasting issue in much of New York, is the top problem. But taxes and scarce job opportunities were cited as the No. 2 and 3 factors. And they are knots that policymakers can unravel....
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