California: When You've Lost Gene Simmons...

Powerline Blog ^ | 10/24/2020 | Steven Hayward

[SeekAndFind]

After a certain point it becomes wanton cruelty to keep dunking on California’s slow motion suicide, but some stories are too good to pass unremarked. Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that rocker Gene Simmons is KISS-ing California goodbye and moving to no-income tax Washington state, and in high KISS-my-ass style:

[Simmons] is now putting the property, which they later redeveloped into a sprawling European-style mansion, on the market for $22 million. The reason: They are moving to a 24-acre estate in Washington, near Mount Rainier, to escape the tax burden of living in California, Mr. Simmons said.

“California and Beverly Hills have been treating folks that create jobs badly and the tax rates are unacceptable,” he said. “I work hard and pay my taxes and I don’t want to cry the Beverly Hills blues but enough is enough.”

But California won’t be the same without him. How can such a person be replaced:

Incidentally, if Joe Biden wins and his tax plans are enacted, California’s combined state-federal marginal income tax rate will be 62 percent for high earners—a higher rate than in the days before the Reagan tax cuts of 1981. Back to the future indeed!

[Salamander]

Good for him!

Gene loves the troops.

[Olog-hai]

They are moving to a 24-acre estate in Washington, near Mount Rainier, to escape the tax burden of living in California, Mr. Simmons said. …

Terrific. Another place run by commies where the tax burden rise to similar levels is inevitable, but also near an active volcano that would bury the whole place in a lahar (think Herculaneum) . . .

[lee martell]

For a nanosecond, I thought you were talking about Richard Simmons. Yes. That one. I don’t think his endorsement is being sought by either candidate at this time. He’s probably still ‘Sweatin’ To the Oldies’.

[Robert DeLong]

He is just jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire, in my opinion. He will learn his mistake. and

[Irenic]

I like Simmons, he has many flaws but he doesn’t deny them and he shoots pretty straight.

He’s good people.

[The MAGA-Deplorian]

Washington? Thats like moving from Moscow to Sibera. Just as communist!

[perfect_rovian_storm]

He’s making a bad decision here though. Most west-coasters who insist on remaining there just haven’t familiarized themselves with the south east. South Carolina, for instance, has everything California has with none of the BS and it’s actually far BETTER in terms of beaches and water temperature, even weather. Hurricanes are a drawback, but then again, so are earthquakes.

[FreeperCell]

Probably pining for the fjords.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

Hurricanes are far more frequent than earthquakes!!

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

I was going to relocate to Idaho HOWEVER the commies from CA. are overwhelmingly fleeing there now!! They just HATE where they are so they relocate and SCREW that state up also!! GO FIGURE!!

[Senormechanico]

I’m in Washington only for the sailing opportunities.
I’ve got a salt water dock in my back yard.

The gov’t sucks though.

[doc maverick]

Calfornicaters trash and destroy their state and then move north and west and turn our states into shitholes too! Not to mention they drive up prices of homes here and try to bring their leftist living with them.
They need to move to Venezuela or some other commie, perverted place and stay the hell out of Oregon!

[Viking2002]

Simmons knows what side his bread is buttered on. He has said that if it weren’t for Allied troops liberating his mother from a Nazi concentration camp, he wouldn’t be alive today, so he owes a debt of gratitude to the U.S. military, and he walks the walk.

[Mariner]

” far BETTER in terms of beaches and water temperature, even weather”

We westerners don’t adapt well to the oppressive humidity. When it’s above 60 degrees, the humidity needs to be below 20% or we melt and die.

At 92 degrees and 94% humidity, we are already dead and decaying rapidly.

[Irenic]

You got that!

Nothin’could be finer...

[metmom]

Except do you want their horrible politics?

[milagro]

Amen!!

[Salamander]

Yes he does and he raised his kids to honor them, too.

[Rurudyne]

Gene Simmons never had a Banana Junior 6000 growing up....

https://sargentspeaks.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/monday-morning-funny-kiss-and-computers/

(the comic only, not the blog commentary)