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    howtocompensateHamilton Nolan
    1/16/14 2:32pm

    This fuckin guy is whining about a proposed $973/year tax increase. That, as a NJ resident, HE WON'T EVEN BE SUBJECT TO.

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      bnceohowtocompensate
      1/16/14 2:39pm

      As a person with tons of family in NJ, I would be opposed to that in principle. How about to make up for the extra $973 they need, they CUT THE BUDGET! You know, like we do everyday in the world. Oh, I want that fridge. But I don't have the money for it. I guess I'll have to cut an expense. Oh, I need a more reliable car. But I don't have the money. Guess I'll need to cut a monthly bill so I can afford the car payments.

      How come any government can't do this? Oh yeah, because it's not their money. And the 90% or w/e the % is who complain, it's not your money neither. Funny how views change the minute it's your money being taken from you.

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      howtocompensatebnceo
      1/16/14 2:47pm

      OMG tho, guess what? Your family in NJ ALSO won't be subject to this tiny tax on very rich New Yorkers!

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    gilbertkittensHamilton Nolan
    1/16/14 2:34pm

    I believe the phrase is "good riddance." Really, New York is only affordable to the very rich, why would you rich dick-heads go somewhere that the poors aren't automatically priced out of. If you move to Texas the poor people will be able to get uncomfortably close to you. Watch out! You might get poor cooties!

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      ThePriceisWronggilbertkittens
      1/16/14 2:37pm

      They'd like Texas. The size of their mansions would make everyone else look like a welfare recipient because COL is so low.

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      QQQQwertygilbertkittens
      1/16/14 2:42pm

      Please, we already have enough homegrown billionaire ass-hats in Texas without taking in New Jersey's or New York's. Can't they just go off and buy their own island and leave us poors alone?

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    isner-mahutHamilton Nolan
    1/16/14 2:35pm

    Is this snotdick is somehow unaware of how much higher taxes are in the UK?

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      missmarthaisner-mahut
      1/16/14 2:59pm

      I suspect this snotdick is somehow unaware of a whole boatload of stuff, including but not limited to tax rates in the UK.

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      EatBigSeaisner-mahut
      1/16/14 3:17pm

      Our bankers in London threaten to move to Switzerland. Funny how, when the non-dom levy was introduced, and the stamp duty increased, and the top rate of tax put up to 50%...they didn't. (Top rate has since been reduced to 45%). Turns out living in a cool city is better than living in fucking Zurich.

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    snatsHamilton Nolan
    1/16/14 2:30pm

    No no no. When rich people criticize poor people that isn't "class war rhetoric." It's only class war when the 90% criticize rich people.

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      Jerry-Netherlandsnats
      1/16/14 3:28pm

      Because in the splendor of their fabulous highly secure homes, they see themselves as Nicholas & Alexandra or Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette and the "90%" as the revolutionaries who will kill them were the delicate balance that keeps them totally insulated to break. So they keep the "class warfare" victimhood meme going. It can only hold for so long [see: all of recorded history]

      No one wants to end up like the Romanovs

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    AmehHamilton Nolan
    1/16/14 2:34pm

    Did he actually use the words "trickle-down economics"? Are people still buying this B.S.?

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      Jerry-NetherlandAmeh
      1/16/14 3:00pm

      Yes, only they don't say what they're referring to is called a "golden shower" by everyone else.

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      crookedEAmeh
      1/16/14 3:42pm

      Not to mention that he used it to describe the policy of higher taxation on the wealthy to benefit the poor, which is basically EXACTLY THE OPPOSITE of trickle-down economics.

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    911DucktailHamilton Nolan
    1/16/14 2:39pm

    It's almost as if he's channeling OxyContin McGee from 2009

    RUSH: In recent days on this program, we talked about the tax increases scheduled for New York, the millionaires tax that will hit single people at $200,000 a year, married couples at $300,000 a year. We have learned that Governor Paterson has said if he had known that these tax increases would drive me out of New York as a place to do business, he would have raised taxes even sooner. They have said in New York that, "Look, New Jersey did this, and nobody left New Jersey." New Jersey? They're holding out New Jersey as a paragon of economic virtue, they're copying New Jersey? The fact is people are leaving New Jersey. The Wall Street Journal on Saturday ran a great editorial about New York being the tax capital of the year. And the question in New York is not, to me, why would I leave, why would I cease doing business in New York, the real question is why the hell would anybody stay there, particularly those in the $200 to $300,000 a year range, the new millionaire tax is going to hit 'em. And it's not just the state. If they live in the city, it's gonna be even worse.

    http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2009/04/…

    whats that El Rushbo? you mean no one other than you decided to stay out of New York. go figure

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      tsam1911Ducktail
      1/16/14 3:18pm

      I thought he was leaving the country because Obamacare...? GTFO, Rush. You made a promise, now keep it.

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      MostlyLurking911Ducktail
      1/16/14 3:41pm

      Why would a "millionaire tax" hit those in the $200 to $300,000 range? Is he saying that it would have hit them indirectly, or am I missing something else here?

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    ARP2Hamilton Nolan
    1/16/14 3:02pm

    I see this all the time and its a straw-man. People like New York, Chicago, SF, etc. live there because of its stores, culture, restaurants, people, etc. and they're willing to pay extra for that lifestyle. If taxes and low cost of living were the only factors in their decision on where to live, they would have left long ago. A small tax on the wealthy will not cause them to leave en masse. The straw-man part comes in because they describe the tax as if its massive relative to their incomes, it's not.

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      jesusinvestswiselyHamilton Nolan
      1/16/14 2:32pm

      Know what else sea birds follow? Trash barges.

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        noodles_nycHamilton Nolan
        1/16/14 4:23pm

        London's taxes are even more brutal than New York's. Why would the wealthy flee there, if his views are to be held by them?

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          Jerry-Netherlandnoodles_nyc
          1/16/14 4:45pm

          Because Geneva's even more expensive!

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        buckfiddiousHamilton Nolan
        1/16/14 2:42pm

        His seabirds analogy is remarkably accurate: Sea birds let the fishermen do all the work and then try and skim something off the top. They also make an unholy racket when they aren't allowed to just take what they want.

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          crookedEbuckfiddious
          1/16/14 3:43pm

          They also mercilessly crap all over everything.

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