If you move to the south, you will be welcomed but don't bring leave your leftist policies.
Posted on 12/29/2013 7:28:10 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
FORT EDWARD, New York — When General Electric moves jobs from its capacitor plant in this Hudson River town next year, worker Mark Rock figures he might have to leave, too.
About 200 jobs will head south as soon as September when GE sends local operations to Florida to cut costs. While New York has had successes in the constant geographical tug of war for jobs, manufacturing jobs like these have been dwindling for decades. People in this area south of the Adirondack Mountains are the latest to wonder what comes next.
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They advertise low/no taxes for the first ten years (for businesses to move there) to suck you in to make up for the businesses leaving the high tax rate. I know there’s a solution to this . . . but it escapes me at the moment.
Unfortunately, those migrating New Yorkers (and other Blue staters) continue to vote for the policies that caused them to loose their jobs in the first place.
If the American taxpayer subsidized GE (even more), it would be less concerned about efficiency.
If you move to the south, you will be welcomed but don't bring leave your leftist policies.
You got that right. Got a few in my neighborhood. Lead up to most conversations: gee, why don’t we have such and such like back home. When I hear that, my usual comment is, if it was so good there, why are you here.
Become the next Detroit Trash Dump
Tarrifs are US job killers.
Well, to be fair, they probably save some jobs in the targeted industry. But tariff proponents almost universally fail to acknowledge the cost to downstream industries.
That’s called looking at the big picture. I’m speaking in general.
feh...
62.6% of NYS voters voted for Obama in 2012.
What else is there to know about the Detrioitization of New York?
GE can’t just leave whenever they want....Force GE to continue to pay NY taxes wherever they go.
“Unfortunately, those migrating New Yorkers (and other Blue staters) continue to vote for the policies that caused them to loose their jobs in the first place.”
They will probably move a few executives but I doubt many of the workers will move.
That is a good way to start. I ask why they moved here, and the answer is usually a job. I immediately respond by saying Democrat policies in (their old state) drives businesses away. I try to use it as a brief opportunity for education.
“62.6% of NYS voters voted for Obama in 2012.”
Uh-huh. Let ‘em choke on it. Stupid needs to hurt.
I’ve seen those ads running in Texas also. Not too long ago states like NY were critical of Rick Perry for suggesting that companies consider Texas because of the favorable business climate.
“Unfortunately, those migrating New Yorkers (and other Blue staters) continue to vote for the policies that caused them to loose their jobs in the first place.”
Stupidity should hurt.
Democrats suffering the consequences of their act - more popcorn!
Its schadenfreude time!
I doubt many businesses are taking them up on the 10-year “tax holiday.” And, is it a true “tax holiday,” or is it a “tax deference,” with the back taxes to be paid in a balloon at the end of the 10 years?
The kind of people NY is trying to attract knows enough to ask these questions.
“62.6% of NYS voters voted for Obama in 2012.”
Similarly to the situation in Illinois, for example, that percentage is different in NYC than it is in much of the rest of the state. Although it might also be said of the other urban centers—Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo—they are left and economic basket cases. NYC votes for a Marxist mayor and already has taxes and regulations that are unimaginable in extent and extremity. However, if you talk to working people in NYC, they are happy with their home valuations, have jobs that pay something (if not as much as elsewhere, but don’t let them hear that), and think they are the center of sophistication (education in NYC is awful and their media industry fails to inform them of the real world, but don’t let them hear that).
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