Posted on 02/09/2015 12:47:02 PM PST by Olog-hai
“It was supposed to be a temporary, stop-gap tax.”
Yeah, here in NJ the tolls on the Garden State Parkway were supposed to pay for the construction - 60 years ago. Now they are just an added tax, with no discussion of eliminating them.
NJ also has a problem keeping wealthy people; how long do you expect each household to foot the bill for one welfare family, one illegal “family” with anchor baby, one public school teacher, and one miscellaneous municipal/county/state worker?
New York’s budget problem is so extreme that back when the banks were bailed out, both the governor and the NYC mayor were begging the banks to pay bonuses to their staffs - regardless of whether they merited them or not. Both needed the tax revenues so badly; the circumstances were irrelevant. If bailout money needed to be transferred from taxpayers across the country to the coffers of New York state and city, then so be it...
That’s income earned in the state, so it is legal.
I believe there was pressure from Howie Carr and others that finally forced Kerry to register his yacht in MA, but I am not sure.
LOL! Some of the “rich” think they are immune from these POS socialists/totalitarians.
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