Posted on 03/04/2014 10:06:50 AM PST by Beave Meister
They are running them here in Arkansas too.
10 years tax free, etc.
Yeah how much of that is really tax free for 10 years?
And then after 10 years they seize your business. So there’s really no point in the first place.
Big opportunity for UN bigwigs and other foreigners to pick up luxury digs at bargain prices, as the fleeing wealthy flood the market in their effort to divest!
There are lots of rules and regulations regarding that 10 years tax free. One of them is if you sell by phone or internet that is not included in the tax free column. Everything you sell must be onsite.
http://www.examiner.com/article/startup-andrew-cuomo-s-political-ambitions?cid=db_articles
That's NY State. I doubt NYCs "better" neighborhoods will be participating in that.
PLEASE! We already have more than our share here in Jersey!
Every few years an article comes out saying the same thing yet they are still there.
yeah but not all geographic areas are the same, and not all demographics are the same either.
“Has everyone seen the commercials to entice business to come to NY? They offer 10 years tax free. They wouldn’t have to do that if it were business-friendly in the first place.”
Then they knock your brains out in the 11th year when you are finally established and can’t leave easily.
Sorry, JimRed. I can’t imagine why those rich new Yorkers who have been advocating this kind of liberal nonsense for years shouldn’t have to stay and live in their workers’ paradise.
Why would any state want that kind of infection?
It’s like begging for a case of herpes. No...no...let liberal Connecticut have it.
When I lived in NYC (about as far north in the Bronx as you can get without falling into Yonkers), even those so called conservatives there had a very limited view of freedom. Take the topic of guns. There wasn't anyone I knew who thought simply being able to carry without a license was a good idea, and I didn't associate socially with liberals. I had many friendly arguments with my lunch buddies who hated the wealth transfer and welfare parasite culture, but who repeatedly told me that they would not have a gun in their house. A significant fraction of them thought that cars were an unnecessary luxury and that people should use public transport.
And finally an extreme case. One of the lab techs where I worked, a man in his 50's whom I thought old at the time (my how our viewpoints change), was mugged waiting for public transport. The mugging occurred in view of a NYC detective who arrested the criminal. The detective asked the victim if he would testify in court and of course the guy said yes. after showing up in court four times only to have discovered that the case was postponed (without anyone notifying him) He showed up and testified. The criminal (even then one of Holder's people) was found guilty and released with a year's probation tacked on to the probation he was already serving for another crime. Long winded story, but after the final act I asked the tech if he would have rather been carrying a gun and he still said no that the guy would have taken it away from him and used it on him. I ask how that was supposed to work, but I forget how the conversation went after that - long time ago Lindsey was mayor.
My point being that
I’m not sure being afraid to use a gun is really a liberal attitude. People who grew up in a city in the north rarely had any occasion to be around guns in a positive setting, such as hunting or even plain old target practice, and it may actually have been prudent of this guy not to have a gun because I doubt that he would ever have dared to use it and the thug probably would have taken it away from him.
As for public transit, it’s good in NYC and having a car is very expensive and more trouble than it’s worth (alternate side of the street parking, heavy traffic that makes the subway a faster alternative, etc.).
So I’m not sure these are “liberal” attitudes, but just simply reflections of where the people grew up and what they’re used to. Most of them would move to similar places in other states (that is, a city with good public transportation) and probably wouldn’t be out in the country or even the remoter suburbs, so I don’t think they’d have much of an impact on small town or rural people.
In any case, with your Bronx friends, we’re talking about the middle class. On the other hand, the mega-rich who are moving out are going to continue to live as they did in New York, that is, with expensive cars, often with drivers, expensive properties, and probably even recreation such as hunting, fishing or riding, or less athletic things such as collecting cars, paintings (or even guns!). Not to mention wives...
I am. Liberalism is another word for statism ie the surrender of individual freedom and responsibility to the government. One of the cornerstones of liberty is the right to defend oneself against aggression a right specifically enshrined in the Bill of Rights. If people are afraid of exercising one of their most fundament rights, then I would say they are not truly conservative.
To put it another way how does one define a liberal? One who believes that the state is the source of all freedoms, not God and not that some freedoms are inherent. By ceeding self protection to the state, those who are unwilling to exercise their 2nd amend rights are swallowing part of the liberal line even if they think of themselves as conservatives.
All investment is a form of gambling. They just do it on a shorter term basis than you or I do.
Program traders actually want their servers a physically close to wallstreet computers because a shorter wire is nanoseconds faster.
unfortunatly those servers are not in NYC, they are in New Jersey...
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