{"id":2274,"date":"2009-04-12T14:31:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T21:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2009-04-12T14:31:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T21:31:46","slug":"where-to-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/04\/12\/where-to-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Where To Move?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am always greatly amused by the display of frustration in which one threatens to leave a country if things don’t change. During the end of the first term of Bush the Second, it was common in the United States to hear liberals express their anger as: “If he wins a second term, I’m going to move to Canada.” (If you go too far to the left, you end up in Canada?) The expression reached spectacular heights, in my opinion, however, when Tina Fey said of Sarah Palin that if McCain\/Palin won the presidential election, Fey would “leave Earth.”
\nBut now that the evil liberals have taken over the Washington, it seems to me that the evil right needs a good guide as to where they can move to overcome their ills. So I’ve put together a simple list to help guide you to your own private utopia.
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\nTaxes<\/b>. First and foremost on the mind of any red blooded conservative, is often taxes (especially with tax day quickly approaching.) Now it is notoriously difficult to gauge tax loads across different countries, especially considering that it depends on your financial circumstances, so instead we can use a different proxy: tax revenue as a percentage of GDP<\/a>. So you’re a conservative who wants less taxes spent on your government? Why not check out<\/p>\n