Posted on 04/30/2014 5:37:55 AM PDT by Hojczyk
There is a growing movement in places like NY and IL to tax companies that leave. Chicago is famous for the games they play trying to punish firms who leave.
Eventually you will see the Fedgov get into it. They don’t want to bail out say, Chicago, so they have a vested interest keeping a company there that tries to leave.
In other words, liberal politics requires a large group of "the rich" for them to vilify, demonize, and ultimately steal from (oops, I mean tax) in order to support their utopian goals.
Ha! Hey lib lurkers out there, spoiler alert! I'll jump to the end here:
It fails, miserably. Socialist/liberal policies have never worked, never succeeded in creating happy, prosperous societies.
Guess what? Socialist policies do not work now. Neither advancing technologies nor different people in charge of the same tired old ideas makes any difference. Yes that means you.
They will never work. Quite simply they fly in the face of human nature. Without an overbearing, fascist state to enforce socialist policies societies naturally evolve away from them. Only through crushing state intervention can they be enforced. But hey, it's for their own good, right? {snort}
Republicans proposed Enterprise Zones. These would be Democrat Economic Black Hole Zones.
If their jobs all pick up and move to Texas, don’t see how.
The question is phrased backwards.
It's called federalism. One very recent example, Toyota's move from California to Texas.
Like they're doing in Detroit? In Philadelphia? In Newark? In Baltimore? I could go on and on...
Let's see, Detroit, Cleveland and Chicago are "Liberal Cities", right? Well, I pray they leave the rest of America behind!
Yawn...nothing more than doubling down on liberal policies that have failed miserably in the past 50 years. Each generation of smug, self absorbed liberals thinks they’re smarter than the last and that they’ve finally figured out the way to get it right.
“These outspoken mayors have generated a growing optimism on the Democratic left that local officials can restore support for government activism.”
The Democratic Left seems oblivious to the flight of businesses from “Democratic Left” cities such as Neu Yuck, and don’t forget the Left Coast state, California, which just lost the Toyota National Headquarters to Texas.
When those Big Sh*ty pestholes have driven out the producers, cut the welfare cash flow, let the Urban Ferals do their tribal warfare thing, and then shoot the last one standing.
Resettle the habitats after the dieoffs.
Liberals caused the mess and will continue to make the mess even bigger. They are a disgrace to the human race.
Heard someone propose an ‘Exodus Tax’ on Corporations leaving a jurisdiction. They would pay a percentage tax on profits made during the entire length of time they were there. It would be painful.
“The problem with killing the rich and taking their stuff is that you can only do it once.”
That problem is solved by just redefining “rich”.
The guy that lives in a box under a bridge is rich compared to the guy that doesn’t have a box to live in.
Progressive system base on taking.
Wouldn't this just give corporations more incentive to leave immediately?
In other words, you can't be a parasite without a host organism.
In the race to third world cesspool status... Yes!
A: Easy...seize all private property.
Mayors and city councils, in this view, can lead the drive to improve the prospects and living conditions of those in the bottom third of the income distribution.
So there is no free enterprise. Ask the folks in the upper 2/3 of the "income distribution".
They are, in short, enacting at the municipal level many of the major policy changes that progressives have found themselves unable to enact at the federal and state levels
Why not? It worked great in Detroit!
With considerable creativity and limited power, the new urban regimes are seeking to diminish the inequality so apparent in cities and so pervasive nationwide. They are mapping the future of liberalism until the day when the national government can bring it to scale Two words...Great Society!
Man this is sad!
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