The story also neglects the reality that affluent households value the services that are sustained through taxes. The wealthy drive better cars, but they drive them on public streets. Even if affluent families send children to private schools, the businesses they own hire workers who graduate from local schools. And upper-income families value the services of fire and police as much as any other family. All of these factors are part of the reason that relatively few people actually move across state lines. Between 2008 and 2009, only percent of households moved to a different state. Those who do are.
