https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/12/11/why-are-government-statistics-on-taxpayer-migration-being-discontinued/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 10:35:24 -0400<![CDATA[As the din of America’s falling headfirst over the fiscal cliff reverberates across the nation, the Obama administration is quietly killing a key economic metric that tells how, and how many, people are voting with their feet. Since 1991 the Internal Revenue Service has been compiling statistics on filers’ addresses, which the agency’s Statistics of Income division uses to show who is moving into and out of every county and state in the nation. As you’d expect, the IRS also knows the aggregate income levels of those who move. So the movements of the most fundamental productive components of the economy — taxpayers — can be analyzed by journalists and economists, or could until now.]]>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:00:51 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/12/11/why-are-government-statistics-on-taxpayer-migration-being-discontinued-n98185