One of the major problems is going to be getting businesses to open up where there are high numbers of unemployed. Why would a business open in a high tax area where the political structure is dependent on the votes of people who receive government assistance. Often, and this has happened in my area, is whenever there is a tax reduction at one level of government, another level raises taxes to make things "revenue neutral". Heavily Democrat areas are going to do this in order to keep their base dependent. People are going to have to move to realize any real economic gains.

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