New York state actually
gained population in the last decade. They did lose about 700,000 people due to net migration, however. But the fact that California did not--look at the electoral college, they did not lose a single vote this time around--and the fact that several other states in the Northeast and the Midwest are losing population, suggests that there are far bigger factors at play here, probably the economy and the weather.
Furthermore, your assumption that "liberals hate the rich" is a strawman. Most of us never said anything more than the fact that the rich are more easily able to support this great nation. Unless, of course, it is to cease to be great.
We really, really, really need to get away from looking at just the debt number itself. It is highly misleading. Of far greater importance is our Debt-to-GDP ratio.
Uh, am I missing something here? I learned in school that if you take a positive number and subtract another positive number from it, the result is smaller than the first number. You wanna explain to me how a-b > a when b>0?