Posted on 05/26/2009 5:20:28 AM PDT by reaganaut1
well there was that one guy who laneded his plane in red square...
Won't happen.It's next to impossible for law abiding people here to get a firearms license.It's so difficult,in fact,that I'd be willing to bet that there have been Federal lawsuits filed here...since the recent SCOTUS decision...seeking to overturn one or more of the state's draconian gun laws.
A man that stupid can get elected to Governor? He must be a Democrat. Rich people get that way (usually) by watching their pennies and their percentages like hawks. They don't change their life habits just because they can afford a yacht.
I don't think that *all* millionaires vote RAT.For example;my understanding is that many of those rich Connecticut suburbs of NYC....Greenwich,New Canaan,Darien,etc...largely vote Republican.
yup. One out of millions who fled the other way. (Not to mention those who legally immigrated to the socialist paradises of the world and who left because it wasn’t heaven.)
IMHO
My wife and I were the first post-vote movers in the Free State Project, which seeks to gather 20,000 small-government liberty activists in New Hampshire to work for a small government of limited powers. We voted for McClintock, and then got the heck out of California. We drove an RV from San Jose, California to Bedford, New Hampshire in November 2003.
I gave myself an instant 9.3% pay raise the moment we crossed the border of California, and we saved $3,200 in sales taxes by waiting to buy our new car until we got here. We have an acre, instead of 5,000 square feet, and our property taxes are about the same - higher rate, but less expensive property.
What worries me, though, is while the shopping mall parking lots in New Hampshire are routinely jammed with Massachusetts residents seeking to avoid a sales tax, those same Massachusetts residents wouldn't vote to repeal an income tax. Those aren't the kind of people I'd prefer move to New Hampshire.
In the late 1970s: Massachusetts tax agents were sent to New Hampshire liquor stores to record the Massachusetts license plates of residents buying liquor and avoiding that state's liquor tax. When then Gov. Meldrim Thomson Jr. found out, he ordered state police to arrest the agents (for loitering).
This is what GM should have done. They could have just increased the price of their cars by 50% and they would have been rolling in dough!
/s
I think the “oh no” poijnt in our nation will be when, as in leftist states, we are not allowed to leave. Like the millionaires are seekign to do now. Then the plebes will also be restricted.
Whistling past the cemetery?
Will moving from one state to another state always be counted as an essentil freedom? I wonder.....
Probably, but I expect extreme Federal pressure to "equalize" state tax laws will render it a moot point within the next twenty years.
SimCity is a great way to teach dynamic systems.
>I am confident that the fed is already trying to figure out how it can curb interstate relocations.
With the right to transportation (Interstate Commerce Regulation REQUIRES this) it will be extraordinarily hard to do. And, if push comes to shove, it may become another CWII watch-spot... either in people using force to hold it, in the State Sovereignty movement, OR in that people will be VERY disgusted with it... prompting them to open their eyes to everything else.
>and shopping mall owners were threatening to have these tax agents arrested for trespassing and stalking.
What about acting under Color of Law/Office?
What about harassment?
As you can see, I’m all for making the statist-minions pay out-the-nose for the indescression of endorsing these unconstitutional/unlawful policies. (What about that “Executive Order” banning firearms in national forests [etc] even though we got the weapon-ban legally repealed through our judiciary?)
>We may control the disposition of certain assets (and relationships), but at the end of our tenure with such items, anyone with an overview of what happened to them will see with what mettle we lived our lives.
Hmm... junk/scrap-mettle in my case. ;)
>“Stupid” and “Politicians” go together like butter and toast...
But butter & toast taste good together... especially if it’s pumpernickel.
Stupid & Politicians would taste like, I imagine, ear-wax and bile.
>>Why do I imagine [MA people] shooting those guys because they were stalking them and they feared for their safety?
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>Won’t happen.It’s next to impossible for law abiding people here to get a firearms license.
That’s too bad. But you can still imagine it! ;)
One point that I disagree on with one of my best friends is that the government is generally uncorrupt and generally does the right thing. Said friend is also, self-admittedly, borderline pathologically trusting.
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