It's considered crass to try and put a dollar value on a human life, and I'm nothing if not crass, so let's get to it.

Hey, everybody, I'm Steve Green with Bill Whittle and Scott Ott, and this is Right Angle.

Brought to you by the members of Bill Whittle.com, and gentlemen, there is a report I saw this week from the Florida Chamber of Commerce,

and believe me, I don't read a whole lot of their

material. I can't quite figure out how this came across my desk. But they put a dollar

value, not on human lives, but on the lost income of other states from all the people who have

been fleeing to Florida over the last few years. And the numbers they looked at just covered 12

months, just from July of 2021 through the end of June of 2022, in which, you know, a trend that

had been going on for quite a while accelerated thanks to COVID in Florida stopping the lockdown

sooner than most other states and the anti-CRT stuff and all the rest.

And I'm kind of shocked.

Florida has gained income to the tune of almost $40 billion in just those 12 months.

Now, of course, Florida doesn't have a state income tax, so people get to keep all of that income,

which is a big impetus for

for moving there but just five states just five states represented more than half

of that 40 billion dollars to the tune of 23 billion big ones and I'm gonna

I'm gonna share these states with you Pennsylvania came in last out of the big five

1.9 billion dollars in taxable revenue picked up and left Scott's old home state.

California coming in forth, $3.5 billion worth a lost income that Sacramento will never get their hands on again.

New Jersey, $3.8 billion.

Illinois, $3.9 billion. And get this,

New York State lost residents with incomes totaling $9.8 billion. Scott, as somebody who's fled one of these high-tax states, in your case down to Texas,

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