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California: When You've Lost Gene Simmons...
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| 10/24/2020
| Steven Hayward
Posted on 10/24/2020 9:15:04 PM PDT by 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 dont 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 earnersa higher rate than in the days before the Reagan tax cuts of 1981. Back to the future indeed!
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Music/Entertainment; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: california; exodus; genesimmons; washington
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To: SeekAndFind
Good for him!
Gene loves the troops.
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posted on
10/24/2020 9:18:27 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Clap for that, you stupid bastards!)
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) . . .
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posted on
10/24/2020 9:19:05 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: SeekAndFind
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’.
To: SeekAndFind
He is just jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire, in my opinion. He will learn his mistake. and
To: SeekAndFind
I like Simmons, he has many flaws but he doesn’t deny them and he shoots pretty straight.
He’s good people.
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posted on
10/24/2020 9:31:48 PM PDT
by
Irenic
(The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
To: SeekAndFind
Washington? Thats like moving from Moscow to Sibera. Just as communist!
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posted on
10/24/2020 9:34:18 PM PDT
by
The MAGA-Deplorian
(It is the Trump way! It is the only way!)
To: Irenic
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.
To: SeekAndFind
Probably pining for the fjords.
To: perfect_rovian_storm
Hurricanes are far more frequent than earthquakes!!
To: The MAGA-Deplorian
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!!
To: The MAGA-Deplorian
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.
To: SeekAndFind
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!
To: Salamander
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.
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posted on
10/24/2020 9:48:30 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(When aliens fly past Earth, they probably lock their doors.)
To: perfect_rovian_storm
” 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.
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posted on
10/24/2020 9:57:01 PM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: perfect_rovian_storm
You got that!
Nothin’could be finer...
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posted on
10/24/2020 9:57:12 PM PDT
by
Irenic
(The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
To: perfect_rovian_storm
Except do you want their horrible politics?
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posted on
10/24/2020 9:58:30 PM PDT
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: doc maverick
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posted on
10/24/2020 9:58:54 PM PDT
by
milagro
(There is no peace in appeasement!)
To: Viking2002
Yes he does and he raised his kids to honor them, too.
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posted on
10/24/2020 10:06:53 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Clap for that, you stupid bastards!)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
10/24/2020 10:36:34 PM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
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