Message to NY Republicans: Just leave, go to Florida where you belong!

| August 30, 2022

Governor Kathy Hochul reportedly told New York’s Republicans to hop on a bus and to go to Florida “where they belong”. She apparently does not believe that they are true New Yorkers.  With wealth generators/job creators, and residents leaving, New York faces growing challenges with meeting its projected budget gaps. These challenges further strengthen when one considers the reduction of tax collections if all the Republicans listened to her and moved to another state.

From the New York Post:

In her attempt to be snappy, Hochul exposed a major problem that has gripped our state since the dawn of the Cuomo-Hochul era: New Yorkers are leaving, and they’re taking their tax dollars with them.

Hochul should be doing everything she can to encourage people to come to New York, not to leave. But she’s hasn’t. And her record $220 billion budget suggests she has no interest in ever letting taxpayers off a heavy hook.

New York City residents pay the highest combined state and local personal income tax rate in the nation. Those high taxes and other factors have led to a mass exodus of jobs and job creators. The Big Apple has yet to recover its pre-pandemic employment levels — coming in roughly 300,000 jobs below the February 2020 mark as of July. Two-plus years of pandemic-induced remote work have only accelerated the trend of New Yorkers seeking better and/or cheaper opportunities elsewhere.

A more cynical person might think this has been the strategy all along: Make it uncomfortable for your political foes in New York and they’ll leave. But it’s not just Republicans leaving — despite the governor’s command. New Yorkers from across the political spectrum are united by, and running from, a common enemy: the taxman.

Polling has shown high taxes are the primary reason New Yorkers are considering or making plans to bolt the state — and that’s the case across key subgroups: Democrats, Republicans, liberals, moderates, conservatives, all income groups, all age cohorts beyond age 24 and almost all education levels.

The New York Post has additional details. Thanks to Hack Stone for the link to this article. 

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ninja

Gee Whiz…

Ole Eyebrows Kathy stole that “Hop On The Bus” line from Paul Simon..

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KoB

ninja, I’d be better off in a pine box, on a slow train back to Georgia. Quote Hank Jr…”send me to Hell or New York City, it’ll be about the same to me.”

The demonrats of Noo Yawk Shitty are still pissed ’cause a Republican President sent Federal Troops into town to put down a race/draft riot. back in ’63. And yep, that riot instigated by the demonrats. Remember, there were a whole lot more Northern demonrats than there were Southern ones.

Could be this too. Republican President (and his SecState) did collude with a Russian (Czar Nick II) to have the Russian Fleets put in ports of call during that time frame in NYC and later into Sacramento, because the US Navy didn’t have enough ships for their blockade and to chase down them damned insurectionists Johnny Reb Ships that were wreaking havoc and spreading terror and discontent amongst the yanky whalers. CSS Alabama was “Save the Whales” long before the Green Peace Movement came along. jus’ sayin’

Oh & gabn/rtr/hbtd 😜

ninja

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍

KoB: YOU NAILED IT!!

Thank You!!

BTW:

Check this out. This young man is a Professor at Troy Unuversity (Alabama)…

“Professor Rolls Out Scholars Program Aimed At Ending ‘Wokeism’ In Corporate America”

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/university-rolls-scholars-program-aimed-ending-wokeism-corporate-world

gabn/gabaf/hbtd/rtr

KoB

Hmmm…seems as if Diogenes has relit his lamp…and is out searching.

gabn/gabaf/rtr/hbtd

NDHoosier

I did a little research on Dr. Mendenhall. He holds an endowed professorship, so he is tenured. He is also Associate Dean of their School of Business. I hope his program can survive whatever dumbfuckery of outrage there is going to be.

P.S.
Fuck Joe Biden
And leftist teachers too
They would be more useful
If they learned to turn a screw

AW1Ed

The proposal is acceptable. We’ll take dispossessed conservative New Yawkers all day, and The Guv can take all the illegals Texas can ship.

A Proud Infidel®™

Hey, save some room for the illegal aliens shipped to Florida by the Biden Administration, Governor DeSantis will ship them off too!

ninja

BTW…

“Russian media: Ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev Dead At 91”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russian-media-ex-soviet-leader-mikhail-gorbachev-dead-at-91/2022/08/30/6677008a-28a3-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html

“Russian news agencies are reporting that former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91.”

“The Tass, RIA Novosti and Interfax agencies cited the Central Clinical Hospital.”

“Gorbachev’s office said earlier that he was undergoing treatment at the hospital.”

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AW1Ed

Happy trails.

Devtun

RIP, Gorby.

jeff LPH 3 63-66

New York City is known as The Big Apple (Manhatten) so I take it that she is talking just about New York City OR all the outsides Counties in New York State. making up the city of New York are the 5 Bouroughs which are Manhatten, The Bronx, Kings County (Brooklyn) Queens County and Staten Island and all are called Bouroughs as mentioned above, with all the 5 bouroughs being in new York State.I believe Big Apple was chosen by a singer years ago and the name stuck. I should have looked up who gave it the name. Sinatra maybe???

Hack Stone

Hack recalls someone, maybe Paul Harvey, saying that The Big Apple had to do with horse racing. Feel free to correct Hack if he is wrong.

5JC

It was in common use in black communities including horse racing and jazz prior to 1920. Fitz Gerald popularized in the 1920s to everyone else when he overheard some black track workers refer to it as such.

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A Proud Infidel®™

Here the D-rats go projecting again, saying “If you aren’t JUST LIKE US, then get out and away!!!” just like the Nazis and Communists of times past.

David

Should I bring up “America, love it or leave it”? Unfortunately this is one case where pointing one finger leaves three pointing back.

Skivvy Stacker

No. Because it doesn’t fit.
Live like ME or go away isn’t the same as; “if you hate the way I keep my house then go away”.
Because in the first case the demand is that a person conform to a specific type of thought or behavior.
In the second case the demand is that you get out if all you can do is gripe and find fault.
So, to answer your question; no, don’t bring up “America, love it or leave it” because it’s an apples and oranges comparison.

RGR 4-78

New York City is so messed up even the peeps fleeing California won’t go live there.

Anonymous

F* New York.

Green Thumb

I do not think she is a liberal as she is playing.

I think she is relativley new to the show and still has a lot of baggage from Turdmo around her neck.

That aside, she needs some new advisers…and quick…

poetrooper

This truly stupid bitch typifies what passes for leadership in the Democrat party today: If you don’t think exactly as I do then you have no worth to me or this state whatsoever, so get your ass out and take your tax base with you.

Such total ignorance and arrogance will inevitably end with reality taking a truly Big Apple sized bite out of her dumb ass a short distance down the political road she thinks is the winner. And this is what Joe Biden believes is democracy? Our way or the highway?

These modern liberals are clearly mentally imbalanced… 🙄 

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Fyrfighter

Problem is Poe, many of the idiots that leave because of this will still vote for the same stupid shit wherever they land, and just like locusts, destroy their new home as well, unless eradicated..

poetrooper

That is, sorrowfully, the truth about many of those who are moving simply because of the tax savings. However, Hochul is targeting Republicans and conservatives who already disagree with her politically. Hopefully those types will remain opposed to Democrat insanity in their new homes.

Here in the Ouachita mountains of western Arkansas, we’re experiencing this: We get fed-up conservatives from Illinois and Michigan but we are also getting too many California libs because of our very low housing prices.

Those assholes can sell their cookie cutter homes on postage stamp lots in the LA or San Francisco suburbs, buy a spacious, custom-built, lakefront home here on acreage, and still have a few hundred thousand left over. Unfortunately, those types are bringing their insane liberal voting habits with them. 😡 

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AW1 Rod

Works for me. If every one of the 5.4 million Republicans in that shithole state was able to leave, that would be a HUGE loss in tax revenue.

HT3

I agree that the millions of Republicans should move out of New York. What are doing there in the first place? I lived in NJ and worked in NYC but moved away 25 years ago. They should take their jobs and the taxable income to place like Georgia, Pennsylvania, and other swing states to shift the tide. NYC is anchor around the neck of a drowning state that cannot be saved. Let it collapse and implode and become what was predicted in Escape from New York in 1981.

P.S. I worked remotely for a Big 4 accounting firm’s NYC offices while still living in Florida for 13 months during the pandemic. Since is was contracted through a third party, I got an NYC salary but paid Florida state income tax…$0. Sweet deal. Fuck em’ if they want to stay.

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Old tanker

The dems have been known as the tax and spend party for many decades now. Why is it such a surprise that folks are just now seeing it. IMO this is just a self inflicted wound. You voted for them they made no secret of what they were going to do just like president dementia said “I don’t work for you”.