Posted on 05/21/2019 9:53:28 AM PDT by John Semmens
As the flow of residents leaving the state has negatively impacted the taxes that can be extracted from these mostly well-off individuals, the government of New York is weighing options to rectify the situation. An idea gaining traction is the imposition of a “certificate of need” to determine whether each resident desiring to emigrate can demonstrate a sufficient urgency justifying the request to leave.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) averred that “we need to reconsider the notion that a resident can decide whether to leave the state without justifiable cause. We understand that the desire to avoid the high taxes we impose is a strong motivating factor for the individual to move out. However, such a decision has anti-social connotations and negatively affects both those left behind and the governments that must care for them.”
“The really bad aspect of the situation from our perspective is that the out-migration is heavily weighted toward those who have money,” Cuomo explained. “They leave behind a growing cohort of persons who depend on the government for necessities like food and housing. This aggravates a cycle of dwindling means to sustain a proportionally increasing dependent population. I believe we have a moral obligation to intervene to prevent this from spiraling out of control.”
“We have regulatory precedents on which to craft an appropriate response,” Cuomo continued. “On a personal level, residents of this state must prove to the satisfaction of the government that they have sufficient need for a firearm before we issue them permission to carry one. I think we can use a similar approach to the emigration problem in that before anyone can legally move out of the state he must persuade regulatory authorities that his need to do so is sufficiently dire to justify it. If authorities are not persuaded that the proposed move benefits both the individual and the state, permission would be denied. The individual and his taxable assets would be required to remain in New York.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom called Cuomo’s idea “intriguing. For too long we’ve allowed a knee-jerk acceptance of individual freedom to run roughshod over every individual’s duty to do what’s right for the collective welfare of society. This ‘rugged individualism’ is not a modern way of thinking. It’s time we realize that letting everyone do as he pleases at the cost of leaving his fellow man to fend for himself is morally wrong. Maybe it’s time for government to step in to force wayward individuals to do what’s best for all.”
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This is not really satire.
Here in my own town in MA, the issue of local fees on real estate sales has seriously come up for consideration. I believe some towns have this.
These fees are logically dubbed “exit fees”.
New Jersey already has what amounts to an exit tax, a tax on profit from a real estate sale which is offset if another NJ property is purchased within a certain time period. Move out of state, NJ keeps it.
They already have an “exit tax” as in: if you don’t re-invest the proceeds of the sale of your home in a new home IN New York and elect to purchase say in Florida, it will cost you about $4500 in tax on a house worth about $250,000.
I understand that the article is semi-satire. The truly frightening part is that what is clearly satire becomes reality in this farcical state.
The TOTALITARIAN state of Nueva York rearing its ugly head. California not far behind either.
Think America.
Welcome back to the USSR.
They’ll take away your New York travel documents ,LOL
Soon to come, Soviet-style Internal Passports.
They need a wall, it’s that simple.
All citizens in CA and NY should stay where they are. DO NOT move to TX!!
There ought to be a warning on all welcome signage into NYS: Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
It would be helpful if the titles for each item were clickable to a page for that item.
I wouildn’t be surprised in the least that this hasn’t been seriously discussed behind closed doors.
Scumbag Cuomo said that people who are NRA members and don’t believe abortion is a wonderful thing doesn’t belong in NY. So I am weighing my possibilities to determine where in ‘America ‘ I’m going to move to.
You’ve made you decisions Andrew, now reap the effects.
They could go ahead and build a wall around the state.
They could call it the Irony Curtain.
“Irony Curtain”
inspired choice of words
maybe you should copyright it
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