He’s after your money.
They can’t afford to build a Berlin Wall all around the state of New York to keep people in, but they’ve been doing the next best thing: if you move out of New York to escape high taxes, they’ll audit you (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-york-goes-after-residents-fleeing-overtaxed-blue-state-for-low-tax-states-with-intrusive-audits).
Far Left New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo laments, “This is the flip side [of federal tax cut legislation]. Tax the rich, tax the rich, tax the rich. We did. Now, God forbid, the rich leave.”
Duh–!
New York has a $2.3 billion budget deficit, and, in recent years, has lost 48,000 residents who fled the state’s high tax regime, where the top 1 percent pay nearly half the taxes in the state. Illinois, another Blue State paradise, has lost 45,000 residents.
“The rich” don’t want to stay there and get raped, so they leave; and New York pursues them with “intrusive audits,” calling them “defectors.” Iron Curtain, anyone?
But they can’t lower the taxes, because then the Democrat Party couldn’t dole out free stuff to its voting base.
If they could afford to build a wall, they would.
I wonder whether Ocasio-Cortez will insist on having her mother audited.
Don’t hold your breath. Socialism is very much a “for thee but not for me” proposition.
For some reason, WordPress tells me that my previous comment on this post couldn’t be posted — or my subscription to the post couldn’t be validated — or something. So I’m going to try again. What I originally wrote was: “I wonder whether Ocasio-Cortez will insist on having her mother audited.”
Phoebe, I received your comment and answered it. Sounds like more computer cock-ups.
Yup, now WordPress has let me through. I think WordPress has been drinking from the leftist water fountain — or whatever they put in that fountain. (Now WordPress will probably punish me by banning me forever.)
Or you could be banned from Facebook, like Joe Collidge was the other day.
If they want the rich to stay and want more in tax revenue coming into their coffers, then they need to lower taxes – it works every time.
They can’t do it. It just hurts too much.
Very 1984.