More and more people are leaving the “dreamland” of Massachusetts

Despite what the Interstate 95 sign says, many Massachusetts residents, whether newcomers or long-time residents, haven’t found the Bay State to be all that welcoming and have moved on to greener pastures and lower taxes. (Photo by Paul Connors/Media News Group/Boston Herald)

This condition requires an enema.

Now more than ever.

The Commonwealth has been on the brink for quite some time, but evidence of the ongoing catastrophe continues to mount.

The latest news comes from the Internal Revenue Service’s annual data on the migration (or flight, perhaps a more apt term) of taxpayers from failed states governed by Democrats.

The statistics also include the amount of revenue lost (and gained) by each of the 50 states.

Massachusetts, which ranks 16th in population, ranks fifth in terms of lost revenue in 2022: $3.9 billion disappeared from the Bay State, according to the federal government’s own figures.

The only places with higher rates of working-class flight were California, New York, Illinois and New Jersey, all much larger states.

In other words, Massachusetts is once again fighting way above its weight class, but not in a good way.

These grim numbers are reminiscent of the darkest days of the COVID panic of 2020, when Gov. Charlie Parker, in the midst of a campaign, was simultaneously generating the highest unemployment rates in the country as well as the third-highest number of COVID deaths.

According to IRS statistics, the five states with the largest loss of income from people not receiving welfare all have Democratic governors.

The top four states are Republican-governed: Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Tennessee. And soon, the fifth state, North Carolina, will be the top-ranking state.

Coincidence?

Here’s another coincidence: three of the top four states that gained the most wealth in 2022 have no state income tax.

Unsurprisingly, Boston state media has written off this terrible report, which does nothing to advance the Party’s narrative.

Comrades, pay no attention to the brain drain and job shortages afflicting Massachusetts. Pay no attention to the rapes in Haitian illegal immigrant shelters or the epidemic of stabbings on Cape Cod.

Let’s focus on the good news from Massachusetts: bike lanes, gay pride parades, the Sumner Tunnel is closed again, and, well, that’s about it.

You’re not supposed to notice what’s going on. George Orwell summed it up well in 1984:

“The party told them to reject the evidence that was before their eyes and ears. It was their final and most important order.”

Last week, the Pioneer Institute released the IRS’s grim statistics. The largest demographic group voting with their feet in this state was people between the ages of 26 and 35. Nearly 10,000 people who started their working lives entered the workforce in 2022, five times as many in that age group as fled Massachusetts in 2012.

Baby boomers aged 55 to 65 lost the most money. In total, 4,500 of them left for better opportunities in 2022, 15 times more than those who left in 2012.

Fifteen times more taxpayers in their prime earning years are fleeing Massachusetts than a decade earlier!

Baby boomers took $1.5 billion with them. Live free or die… or maybe in the Sunshine State.

The Pioneer Institute noted that most of the losses came from people earning more than $200,000 a year.

Democrats, of course, say it’s no big deal. For every law-abiding working-class American who abandons this kakistocracy, two or three illegal immigrants rush into Logan Airport, banging their tin cups and demanding culturally appropriated free meals.

What is even more disturbing is that these dire figures are for 2022, the year before the so-called “millionaires’ tax” came into effect here.

I tweeted the study yesterday and a guy with the username Mike R responded:

“I’m sure the millionaires’ tax had nothing to do with it. Who would have thought they would just move to states where there is no state income tax?”

But there’s more to it than just money.

It’s also the utter lack of respect with which anyone who plays by the rules is now treated in Massachusetts: Christmas parties in public buildings to which no whites are invited, journalists who make $196,551 a year and publicly fantasize about taking away the driver’s licenses of blue-collar workers who drive F-150 pickups.

Or kicking American citizens — including veterans — out of motel rooms they were paying for to make room for unskilled, non-English-speaking, unemployable illegal immigrants.

And what about all the young Americans with families — real families — who saved up to move out of the city? They overpaid for tiny houses in suburbs like Norfolk because the city had a decent public school system. And now their schools are about to be flooded by… undocumented Democrats.

You better believe those people will be showing up on the flight numbers coming out in 2027 or 2028.

Below are some of my other Twitter responses to this IRS news story that was so completely suppressed by the Boston Ministry of Truth:

Jerry T: “Maura Healey and Mayor Wu, what an absolute disgrace you are! What better metric do you need for a political leader? Bleeding tax revenue minute by minute while long-time residents escape this disaster.”

Allan C: “Don’t worry, it’s just the taxpayers who are leaving. What could go wrong?”

King Scoundrel: “I already bought a house in Florida.”

Hollywood D: “After graduating, the first and most important thing was to get out of MA as soon as possible.”

TA, who moved to Tennessee: “I should have moved years ago. I have no regrets about leaving a state that is being destroyed by insane leftist policies, high taxes, and an unaffordable cost of living. I’m glad I left!”

Boston mom: “Once again, the same people who think everything is fine with Biden also thought lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and school closures were no big deal. These people are living in a fantasy world.”

No, they live in Massachusetts. They are very happy here.

They love their bike lanes.