Posted on 08/06/2008 4:27:59 PM PDT by Libloather
They have built-in flex fuel systems with multi-month battery packs. They can run equally well on $50 lunches or 50 cents worth of peanuts.
As the ever famous economist Ross Perot once said ‘’ You will hear a giant sucking sound’’
One thing is true. You cannot have socialism and let people move around.
If you keep taxing the rich, they will move where they aren’t taxed so heavily.
All of these marxists, socialists, and communists will have to restrict movement, otherwise, who will pay for all of the outstretched hands?
Makes you think.
Atlas Puked...
Chris Rock does a routine about how the ‘blacks’ in the cities should escort the white workers to and from work and thank them every chance they get as if they get to ‘p-eed’ off they will move and no when will be left to tax and collect their welfare etc from...
>>”....80% were in favor of a so-called “millionaire’s tax,” according to recent polls.”<<
I guess that puts me in the minority 20% and I’m far far from being a millionaire. I know if this poll were taken upstate that the results would be much different.
When all the millionaires move out and the state is left broke, they will turn to the Federal Gov’t for a bail-out. So basically, they will tax anyone making a decent living in other states after their millionaires are gone.
Our property and school tax combined is less than $1000 per year. We have 7 acres of sugar maples, a nice cottage-style house with a creek running right past our deck. We are also a registered nursery and have beautiful flower gardens thanks to my wife. So, we can’t really balk about school & property taxes.
It’s the higher gas and food prices that hurt the normal upstate family. That and all the hidden surcharges on phone, electric, cable, etc.
What county?
ROFL, so they all move to CT or NJ and take their companies with them. Kewl.
Well I know a whole lot of NY and NJ types moved away from the Socialist hellholes they created and went down to NC, where they promptly started voting in more Socialists, attempting to straighten out the backward Southerners...
I've got peeps in NJ who pay over $10,000 annually just for property taxes on a four bedroom house. NY is MORE?
NJ is goin' down. If you can - move out - or know the Sopranos...
I’m a life long NYer and I’ve never heard folks saying this stuff. They’re fantasizing about us. I’d be against taxing anyone, rich or poor. I’d like to see NY quit spending so much of our money.
Will this finally torpedo the biggest real estate boom in Manhattan history?
When a significant plurality of foerign national Manhattan real estate investors pay no income tax to the state of NY, the real estate market won’t be significantly affected by the increase in NY state resident income tax rates. It costs a minimum of $4000 to start a real estate investment group in NY State. That is peanuts when you are buying multiple multimillion dollar residential units.
I still think the market in Manhattan has topped out, studios and 1 bedroom units are now hanging on the market for an average of 19 and 25 days respectively, up from 12 days earlier this year. The slowdown will move upmarket as the financial market situation doesn’t show signs of improvement. Just my two cents.
Oh, the ones that run businesses providing goods and services to New Yorkers don’t need to go anywhere. They aren’t nearly as “stuck” as all their customers. If the people of New York think prices are high now, just wait until the people running the businesses raise their prices to recover the additional “millionaire’s tax”.
When will people learn that businesses and the people who run them have many options — including relocating and raising prices and cutting workers — to make sure their “after-tax” income is unaffected by the money-grabbing decisions of the mobocracy ? And yet people always seem shocked when prices go up and jobs disappear and stores close due to lack of buyers ...
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