For the third year running, more moving trucks drove away from California than any other state in 2022, while more Americans are going to Republican-led states like Texas and Florida, according to a new report published on Jan. 3. Maybe it’s because of the freedoms they didn’t get in their former home states?
U-Haul conducted the study, which discovered that Texas, Florida, and the Carolinas were the preferred destinations for one-way moving trucks in 2022, with those states ranking as the top growth states on the annual U-Haul Growth Index.
According to the company, the U-Haul Growth Index is compiled based on the net gain of one-way U-Haul trucks arriving in a state or city versus those departing from that state or city each calendar year across the United States and Canada and is a strong indicator of what types of jobs states and cities are attracting and maintaining residents.
According to the report, Texas is the top destination for U-Haul trucks for the second consecutive year and the fifth time since 2016. Florida is next, having been a top-three growth state for seven years in a row. According to the report, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Arizona, Georgia, Ohio, and Idaho will all see substantial growth rates in 2022.
The study also found that in 2022, there was a lot of demand for moving trucks leaving California, Illinois, and New York. This was because more people were leaving places on the West Coast, Northeast, and Midwest.
California scored 50th on U-Growth Haul’s Index in 2022, which means it saw the biggest net loss of one-way U-Haul trucks out of the state, followed by Illinois, which placed 49th in 2021 and will again in 2022. Michigan ranked 48th, Massachusetts 47th, and New York 46th in terms of growth for 2022.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELU-Haul International President John ‘J.T.’ Taylor stated that the tendencies witnessed in 2022 followed very similar patterns to those seen in 2021.
“We still have areas with strong demand for one-way rentals. While overall migration in 2021 was record-breaking, we continue to experience significant customer demand to move out of some geographic areas to destinations at the top of our growth list,” Taylor added.
According to data given by the Texas Realtors’ organization in 2020, the number of persons relocating from California to Texas increased by 36% from 2017, and the trend looks to have persisted.
When asked about Texas being the top destination for U-Haul customers, a representative for Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott hailed the state’s “booming economy.”
Abbott spokesperson Renae Eze, told the Post, “People and businesses vote with their feet, and they are choosing to move to Texas more than any other state in the country.”
Other data from the James Madison Institute, a Florida-based think tank, show that about 330,000 people came to Florida between April 2020 and April 2021, an average of 903 people per day. According to the think tank, this is part of a national trend in which Americans are leaving blue states for Republican states.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican who was sworn in for a second term on Tuesday, has stated that his state serves as a “blueprint for success” for other states.
“What we’ve shown in Florida is you can stand up for truth, you can stand on principle, you can fight the woke elite, and you can win,” DeSantis said during a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership meeting on Nov. 19.
The report comes just days after Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul committed in her inauguration address on Sunday to address New York’s decreasing population.
“We must reverse the trend of people leaving our state in search of reduced expenses and possibilities elsewhere. We can do it,” Hochul stated.
The only way that New York is going to reverse the trend is if they stop voting for politicians like Kathy Hochul.
“We have to make our state more affordable. Yes, people want to be here. And New Yorkers are just struggling to pay rent, food, and gas to get to their jobs. They’re hurting. Our people are hurting. We’re going to fight for them.”
This from a woman who told her gubernatorial opponent Lee Zeldin and all of his supporters that they should just jump on a bus and head to Florida because they are not New Yorkers.
“We’re here to say the era of Trump and Zeldin and Molinaro — just jump on a bus and head down to Florida where you belong, OK?” Hochul said
“Get out of town,” she continued, saying the Republicans “don’t represent our values.” She later tried to walk it back by saying she was only talking to three Republican leaders, but you have to have a double-digit IQ to believe she didn’t include all of their supporters. And so, that’s what they are doing.
“You are not New Yorkers,” she said, rallying supporters. “We come from a long line of people who fought for women’s rights that happened here first. We fought for environmental justice that happened here first.”
“We fought for labor rights that happened here first. We fought for LGBTQ rights that happened here first,” she added. Actually, that would be Chicago by Henry Gerber, but okay, Kathy. #EyeRoll
The problem with New York and California and even Illinois in that they are progressive states run by progressive Democrats who long ago forgot how to govern to make their constituents’ lives better. So what they did instead was to offer up goodie packages in progressive spending programs and social welfare programs to buy votes using everyone’s tax dollars to give welfare to voters so that they would keep voting them in office.
What happens after years of using this model is that you keep offering more and more progressive programs. Well, progressive programs cost a heck of a lot of money and the only way the government gets money is by forcefully taking it from the people who earn it in the form of income taxes.
So a lot of New York and California’s rich people started complaining about the tax rates that they had to pay in their states. They paid a lot of taxes in their respective states and the progressive Democrats didn’t want to lose them to other states because they would take their tax dollars with them. So what they did was they lobbied the Democrats in Washington, DC, who controlled the Congress from 1954 until 1994, when Newt Gingrich created a republican revolution. Their lobbying efforts paid off. The Democrats created what’s called the SALT Tax Deductions. That stands for state and local tax deductions. In essence, the Democrats in Congress wrote into the tax code that progressive states could allow their rich people to write off their state’s very high progressive income taxes from their federal income tax returns.
I can remember governor Andrew Cuomo complaining that the state’s rich people were leaving New York in droves and he blamed president Donald Trump. When Trump was president, he saw that the salt tax deductions were unfair because rich people were able to write off their salt taxes but the federal government never accepts less money because they’re going to spend what they’re going to spend and so working class and middle-class taxpayers had to subsidize New York and California and Illinois rich people to pay for the taxes that they didn’t pay at the federal level. Trump that it was unfair to make poorer people subsidize progressive rich people in blue states, so he ended the SALT Tax Deduction program.
So the next time a Democrat tells you that the rich have to pay their fair share, just remind them of what they did to America’s working class taxpayers for decades with the salt tax deduction program. And the Democrats in Congress pushed very hard for Joe Biden to add the salt tax deductions program again back into his Build Back Better Worse program.
