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| ADIOS, NEW YORK: Taxed Out of the State |
| 2009-05-21 |
| snip Politicians like to talk about incentives -- for businesses to relocate, for example, or to get folks to buy local. After reviewing the new budget, I have identified the most compelling incentive of all: a major tax break immediately available to all New Yorkers. To be eligible, you need do only one thing: move out of New York state. Last week I spent 90 minutes doing a couple of simple things -- registering to vote, changing my driver's license, filling out a domicile certificate and signing a homestead certificate -- in Florida. Combined with spending 184 days a year outside New York, these simple procedures will save me over $5 million in New York taxes annually. By moving to Florida, I can spend that $5 million on worthy causes, like better hospitals, improving education or the Clinton Global Initiative. Or maybe I'll continue to invest it in fighting the status quo in Albany. One thing's certain: That money won't continue to fund Albany's bloated bureaucracy, corrupt politicians and regular special-interest handouts. How did the state get to this point? By spending, spending and spending some more. Right. Don't forget to vote Dem in your new home. |
| Posted by:eltoroverde |
| #13 I prefer New England Fall foliage, Museums, and seeing people with actual clothes on. Ok, the foliage is spectacular. I'll grant you that. I'm not much of a museum kind of girl. I prefer national/state parks. To each their own, right? However, there are some people I don't mind seeing kinda nekkid......but I've always been a bad girl.... (You forgot the hurricanes, Dino. Big, huge, honkin' hurricanes.....You end up in the Keys, your significant other in Tampa, and your dog in the Bahamas....) |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-05-21 22:15 |
| #12 Damn, CB, what happened to the old adage about southern hospitality? :-) however, i reckon the south can keeps its cocaine, cockroaches, crime, and thong bathing suits. I prefer New England Fall foliage, Museums, and seeing people with actual clothes on. |
| Posted by: Dino Spinens7431 2009-05-21 21:29 |
| #11 Damn, Blondie - don't hold back. Tell us what you really think. :-D (BTW, we think the same thing here in central Virginia - especially about the assholes in northern Virginia.) |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-05-21 18:37 |
| #10 Aw, geez, just what Florida needs.....more damn Yankees! On behalf of the Sunshine State, to which someday soon I hopefully will return from the People's Republic of Johnson County (hack, spit).....if you do decide to move there, leave those freakin' idiotic policies of your home state behind, ok? Remember....this is the way we like doing things, and we don't particularly care how you do it in NY/NJ/Mass/whatever other frigid hellhole you came from. |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-05-21 18:22 |
| #9 The blue states tend to tax everything moving, everything nailed down, and every activity. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-05-21 14:26 |
| #8 Go ahead and move. Just don't come to Kaliphornia. We already have enough of our own problems. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-05-21 13:52 |
| #7 Hey Delphi, honk if you live near Worcester!! After 36 years in the state (a lot more for the wife) we are now looking to move on out. The only problem is our (her) requirement that we stay within 2 hours of the grand kids. That still gives us most of NH some of Vt and some of Maine. Other big prob is that ex-Massaholics are turning NH blue bringing their diseased attitudes with them. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2009-05-21 13:42 |
| #6 "Economic Creationists" -- i like that, Procopious -- may i quote you? (and not just on LGF) |
| Posted by: Querent 2009-05-21 13:04 |
| #5 Politicians and policy wonks are so far behind times. Maybe some, but the boys at the wheels are basically Economic Creationists. They believe money and capital are magically manifested out of thin air, or printing presses [or computers]. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-05-21 12:01 |
| #4 Politicians and policy wonks are so far behind times. They have no idea that in a service economy you only need virtual offices and infrastructure. There is no need for financial types, traders, software designers, etc. to have to live in a high tax state when you have Texas, Tennessee, Nevada, Florida, et.al. to move to and save tons of money. Florida may have lost a lot of trades people to Texas (hurricane reconstruction) but it is bringing in equal loss income with people like this who buy bigger homes, spend more money and attract their friends to do the same thing. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2009-05-21 10:53 |
| #3 Go-Go Gadget GALT |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-05-21 10:32 |
| #2 Watch for a similar exodus on top of the current one in Massachusetts given it's economic problems. I was listening to a radio talk show in Worcester the other day on the way into work, and the host commented on how New Hampshire is becoming not only attractive to Massachusetts residents at wits end regarding the prospective increase in taxes and fees, but others states, including those not in the North East. From the Boston Herald today. Veto urged as resistance to tax hike grows |
| Posted by: Delphi 2009-05-21 08:55 |
| #1 The same usual suspects that decry clear cutting forests and destroying 'delicate' environments for furry little woodland creatures have no qualms about destroying and rendering the economic landscape for that last bit of gold. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-05-21 08:05 |