Interestingly enough, there seems to be an increasing trend in the normally liberal New York State media to write articles about how taxes are choking this state to death.
It may be that we've finally reached the saturation point for even liberals.
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2 posted on
01/08/2004 5:00:33 AM PST by
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
I grew up in Westchester County (right to the north of NYC). A great place to live back then. Today, taxes on the house I grew up in are $15,000/year and a run-down three bedroom house on a 80x80 lot on the street is going for over $400,000. No way I could afford to live there with a family.
On the bright side, my parents sold their house and moved closer to the grandchildren. In what they SAVE in taxes in a year they pay for the mortgage for their new house on Pennsylvania!
3 posted on
01/08/2004 5:06:02 AM PST by
2banana
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Soon, his parents will relocate to Tennessee. Why are so many people moving to Tennesee? I know lots of people moving there, and many of them are not conservative, and dont even like country music.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
It may be that we've finally reached the saturation point for even liberals.Unbelievably, just that happened in CA--even more liberal than NY. But what's ironic is that in CA it happened predictably under a Democrat governor, but in NY the governor is a Republican.
5 posted on
01/08/2004 5:40:11 AM PST by
randita
To: bc2
upstate ping
To: Behind Liberal Lines
It may be that we've finally reached the saturation point for even liberalsWe could only hope and Pray so. So now what is the next step?
Bounce every incumbent out of office starting with Shelly Silver on down the line!!
9 posted on
01/08/2004 5:56:03 AM PST by
The Mayor
(The more you look forward to heaven, the less you'll desire of earth.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Of me and my siblings (5 in all, born in the Adirondacks), only 2 still reside in NY, and one plans to move the day he retires (from his state job). My inlaws moved the first year they retired (Rockland county). Too expensive, too liberal, and too cold. The rich want the state "Forever Wild", well they can have it! I don't even consider trips or vacations there anymore...
10 posted on
01/08/2004 5:58:27 AM PST by
Dubh_Ghlase
(Have you investigated the evidence in the theory of evolution, or just accepted it in faith?)
To: Behind Liberal Lines; Victoria Delsoul
People I know in the land development business tell me that upstate New York should be one of the most attractive real estate markets in the country. The place has so many things going for it that are the envy of other regions of the U.S.: great highway, rail, and utility infrastructure, an abundant supply of fresh water, inexpensive raw land, etc.
The fact that the prospects for the region are so poor despite all these advantages is a disgraceful reflection of New York's dysfunctional state government.
11 posted on
01/08/2004 6:20:45 AM PST by
Alberta's Child
(Alberta -- the TRUE North strong and free.)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Well, they come down here and vote in higher taxes. Palm Beach County is loaded with NY'rs that come down for the lower taxes and proceed to vote in every tax raising Democrat they can.
I moved here to FL years ago, and it was a breath of fresh air - but also culture shock - I even had to pave my own street in front of my house. After getting used to it, I realize how superior it is to have control over your own money and responsiblities.
I am a Southerner by choice, and man I love it. I am also a missionary to every Northerner I can be, about how great it is to pay your own way instead of being taxed. \
The only think I miss from up North is the food -what I would give for a good bagel, knish, Italian, boy, I could go on and on....
To: Behind Liberal Lines
What is needed IMO is a severing of NYC from the rest of the State. The rest could then vote more conservatively, and get back to health. Then NYC, like DC, can do its own liberal thing until.....
18 posted on
01/08/2004 7:43:17 AM PST by
expatpat
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Even Nurse Bloomberg is doing some sort of tax reduction/rebate on the 18.5% property tax he rammed through when he first got into office.
49 posted on
01/08/2004 8:23:15 PM PST by
NYC GOP Chick
(Kaddafi is such a whack job that he never promoted himself past Colonel!)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
"The reason, he said, is that high taxes are choking residents and businesses."
Thus why Florida shall continue to explode. Sadly the liberals from California and New York are moving here also, expecting the same daddy-day-care services that those states created. I see Florida turning left in 10 years unfortunately.
55 posted on
01/08/2004 8:35:27 PM PST by
Beck_isright
("Deserving ain't got nothing to do with it" - William Money)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Many relatives have moved away over the years. To Vermont. To Florida. To North Carolina. Soon, his parents will relocate to Tennessee.
No finer argument for federalism was ever made...
58 posted on
01/08/2004 8:44:22 PM PST by
nicollo
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