[winner3000]

LOL! This made my day. I love to read the opinions of the NY Post thanks to editorials like this one. I bet that the same point could be made about Kalifornia's rich people! It couldn't happen to nicer folks. Thinking that Hollywood money may be moving to the Bush states is sweet justice indeed!

[Gigantor]

"It couldn't happen to nicer folks."

What, you think there are no conservatives here in New York City? We're outnumbered, but we're here fighting the good fight.

[Captainpaintball]

-- EVERYBODY knows the folk tale about the city slicker who goes to the country and gets picked clean by slow-talking locals who don't seem to know much more than how to chew on a stem of grass.

I looooooove that folk tale!

[sarcasm]

It seems that the "Bush" states are federal welfare junkies.

[fporretto]

Please see also:

$5 Billion Per Clue

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Visit the Palace Of Reason:
http://palaceofreason.com

[RKV]

So you approve of theft?

[cgbg]

Actually NY is in even worse shape than that because underlying this analysis is the assumption that a dollar is New York is the same thing as a dollar in North Dakota.

Visit realtor.com and compare a similar size house with similar size lot and when it comes to buying houses you will find that a Westchester County dollar is only worth about a tenth of a Fargo dollar.

As Freepers well know one of the secrets to a comfortable retirement is to sell your high cost real estate and move to a low cost area.

[scouse]

in 1993, 75 percent of the people he hit were living in sight of the Empire State Building

Now, in 2003 they are all living in the South and polluting our lakes, crowding our highways and sucking all that money from the Feral Gubmint, to say nothing about trying to steal our elections.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

I have a modest proposal. New York gets to keep all of its tax money and they agree to remove their congressional delegation from our House of Representatives. I think the rest of the country would be grateful! The funny thing is that they aren't worried about individuals being taxed to death for redistribution, just the fact that the redistribution isn't being made to others in their state.

[Capt. Tom]

By the time we are through with the "Big Dig" here in Boston we will have gotten our money back. -Tom

[John Jorsett]

When Bill Clinton hiked taxes on upper-income earners in 1993, 75 percent of the people he hit were living in sight of the Empire State Building.

And a good-size chunk of the rest is living in and around Hollywood. Maybe this "tax the rich" stuff isn't entirely a bad idea. If there were just a way to limit it to rich Democrats, I could get behind it 100%.