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A comment on Japan's Hometown Tax. Parent comment

Re:Japan's Hometown Tax by seanmcdirmid on Monday September 18, 2023 @11:25PM (#37565281)
It is way worse in a state like Wyoming: https://wyomingtruth.org/brain-drain-majority-of-university-... (66% leave after graduation). Utah, however, is pretty good about keeping its graduates in state (as well as grabbing some of Wyoming's).
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Re:Japan's Hometown Tax by screye on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @07:15AM (#37568313)
The real question is whether Wyoming should be a state at all. With 1 million distributed over a vast rural area and no real city.... ofc young people are leaving.

America has a 40x gap between its smallest and largest state. Leaving Wyoming is the same as leaving SF for San Jose in population terms.

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