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Low taxes means that the people aren't all that well looked after - poor education, poor public health, poor public transport and poor policing.

That makes it difficult to get good people to work in manufacturing and in the data centres. Wanting to pay low taxes usually goes with wanting to pay low wages, which doesn't help either.

Mississippi is the poorest US state but still better than the UK per capita. And it has excellent primary education.

Good people are already there, and more are diffusing from New York and California to Texas and Florida and Tennessee.

I guess he never heard of it.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Except that US primary education is funded by local school districts, which are tiny, and mostly poor. Excellence in US primary education is assessed by people who are mainly interested in making sure that it produces good US citizens, who believe that the US constitution was divinely inspired, and better than any more recent constitution.

People don't diffuse. They move to areas that they think are more attractive than those they came from - but they are subjected to a lot of local propaganda spread by the news networks controlled by employers who want to attract cheap labour. Your willingness to believe nonsensical propaganda about anthropogenic global warming is an example of typical American susceptibility to such misinformation.

Seems hard to imagine how. But if you have enough practice at ignoring inconvenient facts that aren't spread by the mainstream media, you might be able to manage it

He was born in South Africa in 1971, and didn't move to Canada (where his mother was born) until 1989 when he was 17. He probably got a lot practice in ignoring inconvenient facts when he was young.

Don't know the latest numbers but three to five years ago Mississippi was the only state where the average person got a raise when they retired and started collecting Social Security.