Opinion: Where are all the missing New Yorkers?

Dear Editor,

Where Are All the Missing New Yorkers? Well apparently not all of them moved to Florida. A good many of the 1.5 million resident taxpayers having left New York, which Governor Cuomo claims moved to Florida for the warm weather are also to be found as a  part of the 4.5 million people who have relocated to  Colorado over the same period of time New York has been losing them.

Colorado is the seventh largest state for oil and frack gas drilling. Fracking – A “dirty” word in New York. Yet in Colorado, Natural gas finds the state has managed to take the same natural resource to bring a contributed  $32 billion to the state’s economy and use it in a productive manner, reinvesting in their hometown communities, as has Pennsylvania. 

From 2004 to 2014, Colorado has seen their state’s natural resource leap by 51 percent, bringing with it a growth of 4.5 million taxpayers and contributors to their workforce. 

Perhaps it’s not just the Florida weather with zero state taxes which retirees love, but the unemployed and under employed working group seeking to have a solid job and the security it brings. To Cuomo’s assertion it’s the crappy New York weather, Colorado is well known for its snow – and lots of it. 

Sincerely,

Florence Alpert

Candor, N.Y.