[cicero2k]

"Between 1998 and 2008, a net total of more than 1.7 million New Yorkers chose to relocate, taking with them their wealth and talent," it says. "More income has left New York than any other state in the nation — $71.7 billion from 1993 to 2008."

Plus Mayor Bloomberg's attitude to Rush Limbaugh when he left Manhattan: "good Riddance".

Nice job, Mr. Mayor.

Seriously though, NY and SF for that matter; will always draw international wealthy families. That is, wealth imported from overseas. These are the households that keep these cities going.

[ponygirl]

Didn't Rush say something about there being basically fewer than 100 people living in New York that were paying the majority of the taxes? I thought he said it was something like 40 people.

Those people should just shrug. Leave. Quit propping up that city and watch it collapse in their wake.

[GregoryFul]

Rush reported that a recent NY court has determined that anyone who has a part-time residence in NY will have to pay income taxes on their full annual income - not as previous, a proportionate part of such, attributable to time spent in the state. Even if they have only spent a few weeks in a vacation lodge they owned in the state.

Soon, if you tent in NY, you get to pay income taxes on your full annual income; or perhaps travel through NY in a camper or such - pay at the boarder on exit, or be locked up!

"Liberal" NAZI scumbags!

[bill1952]

come on. That is a drop in the bucket - not enough to fund one department’s pensions