[Mouton]

The real question should be do the one percenters need New York?

[KevinB]

This is going to be fun to watch.

[Excellence]

Meanwhile, Florida becomes the economic capital of the US.

[Slyfox]

Back when NY City knew how to vote for its mayor:

[originalbuckeye]

I am a firm believer in ‘those who are responsible for calamity should have to suffer more’. I HOPE the 1%ers leave him high and dry. Then those who voted to punish success will have to bear the brunt of DeBlasio’s policies. Funnily, we out here in the west are now being subjected to ads featuring ‘tax-free New York’. ‘Come to New York to open your business and pay no taxes for 10 years’. Yes, I understand it is for the State of NY, but c’mon.......who would EVER believe that lie?

[depressed in 06]

The income gap will decrease with the withdrawal of the 1%. De Blasio’s gaol can be achieved if he can drive them out.

[windsorknot]

Will DeBlowsio turn NYC into Detroit Part Dieu?

[blueunicorn6]

Move the stock exchange to Dallas.

[The_Reader_David]

Well, like Ed Koch said when he lost to Dinkins: “The voters have spoken. . . and now they must be punished.”

[Texas resident]

This goof is not thinking things through.
Trashing the 1% got him elected, but the 1% can afford to leave the city or the state. And will probably start leaving soon.
Then what comrade?

[ArcadeQuarters]

I hope he does everything he says he’s going to do. The limousine liberals deserve what they voted for.

[The Great RJ]

How soon before New York starts looking like East Berlin with de Blasio building a wall to keep the wealthy from fleeing the city?

[Yorlik803]

If you are rich and live in NYC then you are either well connected or a moron.
If you own a business in NYC the same applies.

[Din Maker]

It is recorded 3 times in the New Testament, that Jesus said: “The poor you will have with you ALWAYS”. Apparently Obama and the Liberals don’t know that there will NEVER be “income equality”.

[COBOL2Java]

Every rich person who is pushed out of New York, or elects not to come here in the first place while de Blasio whips up ever more job-crushing taxes and regulations, is a potential loss for all of these industries and many more, and without the gusher of tax revenue Wall Street provides there wouldn’t be a welfare state either: the top one percent of New Yorkers provide 43 percent of the tax revenue.

Who is John Galt?

[MasterGunner01]

Even Mayor Mike Bloomberg wasn’t stupid enough to try and fleece the “percenters” of NYC. When the then Gov. David Patterson wanted a “soak the rich” tax on high income earners, Bloomberg went public to scuttle Patterson’s plan. Why? There are 44,000 of these high earners that pay 50 percent of the NYC budget. NYC cannot afford to go after them without dire consequences. Go ahead, Mayor Bill de Blasio, time to destroy the economy of NYC. Pass the popcorn. For you NYC folks, BOHICA — you’re going to get it long and hard.