Posted on 05/14/2009 5:12:28 AM PDT by mathprof
Another shining example of Thomas Sowell’s single level thinking. Libs believe that if you raise the tax rate, the only things that will happen is that the money will move out of the bank accounts of the wealthy and into the state treasury. Therefore, more money to spend. The libs never seem to understand secondary or tertiary effects....
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How difficult is it to compare the names on a few thousand returns from one year to the next and count how many are now missing?
Maryland millionaires are welcome in Texas. They bring businesses, knowledge, wealth and JOBS!!!!
So far, Texas hasn’t tried to discriminate against millionaires.
Come on down y’all!!!
Why don’t they just emulate Massachusetts and have a box that anyone can check so that they can pay at a higher rate? Oh wait, that didn’t work. John Kerry didn’t even take advantage of the opportunity to be more patriotic.
How long before they implement Chinese-like policies that make it incredibly difficult/expensive to move?
I’m personally aware of someone who just did exactly that.
I know several millionaires who have left Maryland. Just packed up and established legal residence in Florida or elsewhere.
They need look no further than their greedy selves along with Obama and and Congresscritters.
...and it's in !*$&%* Maryland.
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When Democratic issues fail at the ballet box, it is because "we failed to get our message out". That is, the smartest people in the world, the Democrats, know that if you really just understood how taking your freedoms and raising your taxes to give to people who don't work is good for you, you'd fall right in line, you bumpkin.
When simple laws of supply and demand make them confused and cry like a little baby, then they're "trying to undersdand this."
(Modern) Democrats think all they have to raise taxes A, and bango, B increase your tax revenue. They never understand that the world is not a lab experiment, and when you raise taxes A, employer B moves out and goes to Country C.
It IS funny/strange that leftists can’t ever understand that people react to incentives.
I think it has to do with that aspect of their worldview that doesn’t recognize the ubiquitous existance of tradeoffs in every decision and policy.
They believe in perfect, tradeoff free solutions, and every time they try something, they think they’re implementing one of these tradeoff free solutions.
* The continued creation of wealth is necessary to take away wealth. No wealth, nothing to re-distribute. IOW- the party of death is killing the Golden Goose.
* Anti-capitalism is anti-American. Since the left is anti-capitalism, they must be viewed as un-American.
* Wealthy people are smart - they change their behavior to side-step the confiscatory rules - to wit - they move away from Maryland.
People are fleeing the blue states, because of high taxes, high crime, poor schools, corrupt politicians...
...and they infest the red states, and register as dumocrats.
Colorado and Florida are prime examples of this process.
Pretty soon, we will all be equally miserable.
Yeah, that's a real head scratcher there.
That’s why, after the “grand divorce”,
the free states will have to establish STRICT ideological immigration tests.
Since when was Dr Thomas Sowell a liberal? He is a distinguished conservative economist now affiliated with the Hoover Institution. Nobody at Stanford will socialize with him because he’s so conservative.
I was going to say something else, but about 30 people beat me to it. I doubt that any true liberal knows why this is funny, just as no true conservative missed the stupidity of a socialist who is trying to understand why the wealthy don't cooperate when you spread their wealth around.
Great quote by Ayn Rand! I love to see the good stuff.
I hear ya. I’m in NJ now, but my wife is from NY and I grew up in PA. As bad as it is politically, I love the Mid-Atlantic. Can’t see myself living anywhere else. This region of the country is so blessed with rainfall, woods and mountains, beaches, colonial history, etc. I’ll be hanged if I just pack up and let the Commies continue to ruin it. And it’s mainly the cities and the suburbs that are the problem here anyway—the rural areas are still great places to be.
I figure I’ll bide my time right here, fight the good fight, and get ready to rebuild after the socialist empire has collapsed.
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