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1 posted on 08/21/2023 7:35:38 PM PDT by lowbridge
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When governor Andrew Cuomo let slip that the State of New York was looking to tax every stock transaction, you could hear the flick of the switch - those Wall Street firms were never going to let anyone in on their trading secrets and would leave any jurisdiction whose politicians thought they could tax such transactions.


60 posted on 08/22/2023 5:17:25 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Ya know maybe one day a major city or 2 could easily be cordoned off and used as a prison like the movie!! Would be easy to do once all the companies leave!!
64 posted on 08/22/2023 5:26:55 AM PDT by sit-rep
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They’re trying to make it up on the backs of people who rent apartments and condos. But the city will hollow out; and the danger is foreign oligarchs swooping in to buy up NYC real estate. Chinese, Arabians, Russians...


66 posted on 08/22/2023 6:34:50 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)
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But the mayor, the former NYPD affirmative action hire, fiddles while Rome burns.


76 posted on 08/22/2023 10:59:30 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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When these big spenders are not eating and drinking and shopping, the retail in the city gets hit hard. Increased crime doesn’t help much either.


77 posted on 08/22/2023 11:02:15 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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