That is another complete progressive myth unsupported by reality.
Medical School Applications - U.S. medical schools-including those in red states like Texas and Florida-continue to receive tens of thousands of applicants for every available seat. Competition remains fiercely brutal nationwide, and no major medical school is struggling to fill its classes.
Physician Data -AAMC and census data show that top red states like Texas retain over 80% of their medical graduates, while medical practice rankings consistently list red states highly for doctors due to lower malpractice liability, lower taxes, and better cost of living.
Claiming doctors are getting "arrested after graduation" is pure political fiction used to dodge the real economic reasons people are moving.
The SALT Cap Myth - The domestic migration out of high-tax blue states wasn’t triggered by the 2018 SALT cap; it has been a multi-decade trend driven primarily by cost of living, crime, business climate, and heavy taxation. Furthermore, the exodus isn't just "monied types"-it includes families, retirees, and middle-class workers.
The NYC Crime Claim- Claiming NYC is the "safest big city in America" ignores both standard FBI per-capita tracking and the everyday reality that has residents and businesses relocating out of state in droves.
Deflecting from the actual reasons people are voting with their feet doesn't change the underlying governance failures.
Blaming fuel prices on the Strait of Hormuz misses the actual bottleneck. The pressure on global fuel and diesel markets isn't coming from Middle East shipping lanes-it's coming from the war in Ukraine, where strikes on Russian refineries have heavily pinched global refined product supplies.
Your claim that people are fleeing red states over healthcare is flat-out wrong with zero data to back it up. Actual U.S. Census Bureau and IRS records show a massive, decade-long exodus out of high-tax blue states like NY and CA to red states like Texas, Florida, and Tennessee-a trend even blue state governors openly acknowledge.
Trying to pin state-level governance failures on a federal president is precisely what the meme was calling out.
If a president's specific policies directly impact the specific "wrong" or wrongs in question? Absolutely, 100%. But trying to blame a federal administration for localized problems that have plagued blue states like NY and CA for well over a decade-long before Trump ever took office-misses the mark. Even Democrats acknowledge the ongoing trend of residents fleeing for red states like Texas, Florida, and Tennessee due to long-standing cost, taxes, crime, and policy issues. Deflecting local responsibility is the exact point the meme was making.
Actually, there are some rich people that us conservatives think are pretty horrible people. That still doesn't mean that the top 50% of income earners should pay 97.7% of all federal income taxes while the bottom 50% pay the remainder 2.3%. By the way, Many of those people in that bottom 50% don't pay anything at all, and actually get more back more than what they paid in, assuming they paid in anything at all.
