« on: March 18, 2026, 02:26:33 pm »
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/03/18/kathy-hochul-begs-rich-people-to-come-back-to-new-york-n3812992Kathy Hochul has a big problem: she and Mamdani have big spending plans, but the tax base of New York is eroding because high-net-worth individuals are leaving the state for greener pastures.
Her solution? Ask them to come back. Be patriotic. Take one for the team.
No, really. This is how well Democrats understand economics.
http://twitter.com/MattWhitlock/status/2034243619616391649
Now, there are some patriotic millionaires who stepped up. Okay, cut me the checks. If you want to be supportive, but maybe the first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who we can bring back home because our tax base has been eroded. So I philosophically don't have a problem, I have to look at the fact that we are in competition with other states who have less of a tax burden on their corporations and their individuals. And I would say remote work changed everything. There were people who could only work in an office in Manhattan or work in New York State and they were captives to our state. They were going to stay. We saw that that's not the case. Wall Street, businesses looking at Texas? They're not going there because they have a nicer governor, I know that for sure, but they're going there because of the tax rate. We have to be smart about this. But we can fund what we want to fund with what we already are taking in.
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Well, there she said it...they were captives in New York before COVID remote work made escape possible.
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