California looses two more taxpayers!!!

02/22/2003 | TMMT

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Ahhhhhhhhh…………

It feels so good to say that I am finally leaving southern Kalifornaistan. Good-bye Gray Davis, Good-bye LA, Good-bye Highway 5 and 405 at 5 in the afternoon!

Good-bye draconian gun control!

I’m taking a job with a company that’s flight department is based out of Salt Lake City and the wife and I began looking for a place about a month ago, slowly working our way around the area. One weekend we just decided to drive up to Jackson Hole WY and instantly fell in love. The drive was wonderful up I-15 to Ogden and the total trip was around 290 miles, that’s if I ever need to drive it.

We immediately found a nice lady at Jackson Hole Reality to help us locate our dream home and well, the rest will be history shortly.

Being in corporate aviation one of the perks that comes with a FT job in a Fortune 50 company is usually travel passes. My future company has travel passes with Delta and Skywest into and out of SLC, so I can commute to and from work directly out of JAC into SLC, then make my way to our corporate hanger on the same field.

The only downside (if you want to call it that) is that I’m leaving the flight deck of the world’s greatest bizjet IMHO, the Gulfstream V for it’s direct competitor the Bombardier Global Express, which this company has a pair of. On the up side it’s more pay, cheaper cost of living and better benefits not to mention the view out our newly purchased backdoor is kick a$$!!!

[I got the rope]

Welcome to FreeRepublic. BTTT.

[daviddennis]

Congrats on the move, MMT. I couldn't stand the frigid weather, personally, but hopefully you've taken that into account. I hope the new jet isn't too much of a letdown after the GV.

Lancy, not quite, but close. Los Angeles County wanted to pass a tax on satellites owned by Los Angeles-based companies such as Hughes Aircraft.

Here are some details.

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[Lucky2]

We left that rat hole called California 2 years ago and have never looked back. Being in Seattle is not perfect, we have our own set of liberal yucks up here running Washington State, but it's a far cry better than Gov. Gray Out and his gang of merry theives! Good luck to you my friend and never regret your decision.

[William Tell]

Lancey Howard said: "I think I recall that California's Democrats once tried to levy a tax on satellites which passed overhead - - do I recall that correctly, or was I hallucinating?"

I recall that too. I think it might have been Los Angeles County. It didn't take long for someone to find a clearcut federal jurisdictional protection for spacecraft. That ended it.

[nutmeg]

bttt

[Ben Chad]

You are too series.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Your right, so much for my proof reading skills, guess I'd better stick to aviation.

With typing skills like that, stay away from Airbus! :)

Congrats on escaping the touchy-feeley gulag.

[bert]

I think that it's appropriate to announce one is moving to Jackson Hole.

[null and void]

Do you have to do, like, a twelve-step program when you leave Kalifornistan?

That depends on how far you are from the border...

[quebecois]

I don't mean to rain on your parade, but do you think that whats happening to California will stop at its borders? Eventually, we will run out of places to hide. You may be interested in fleeing california, but california is interested in following you.

[null and void]

Marines stationed at Tustin between 93-1998.

And MCAS El Toro is closed.

[Mamzelle]

Wow, you get to live in Jackson Hole! Kewl!

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Yep!

[null and void]

Can Silicon Valley be it's own enclave? Sort of a Monaco, or Andora...

[NordP]

You bet! - Good idea.

[MissAmericanPie]

Congratulations on your escape from the conquering hordes of La Raza. May your paycheck never be pillaged again.

[snopercod]

Hey, don't flout it.

[snopercod]

Sounds like life is goooooooooood!

[FITZ]

I don't live in California but the property taxes here out outrageously high ---for those same reasons. But it's true what you say ---it's only a matter of time for these problems to spread north ---and they're spreading north quite fast from what I can see.

In Texas the southern counties are demanding a state income tax and it's probably going to happen. You can run but you can't hide.

[quebecois]

"In texas, the southern counties are demanding a state income tax, and its probably going to happen"

Of course it will happen. The major reason that the population shift across the border is occuring is so that they can cohabitate the same political system with a productive middle class american population. Once in texas, they will seek to use the redistributive powers of government to enrich themselves at the anglo taxpayers expense. The most efficient mechanism to achieve this redistribution is the income tax. Why should all of those rich racists sit in their big suburbs with all of their money while the barrios on the border have no running water? Clearly this is not fair, and must be redressed by the state government via a steeply progressive income tax.