Even he can see that
“You heard the mantra, ‘Tax the rich, tax the rich,”‘ Paterson said Wednesday at a gathering of newspaper editors at an Associated Press event in Syracuse. “We’ve done that. We’ve probably lost jobs and driven people out of the state.”
September 26th, 2009 at 3:25 am
Back about 2000, Kalifornia decided to jack up the tax rate on those people with incomes of a million $ or more a year. There were about 15,000 of them. With the tax increase, they broke even after 5,000 left the state. The questions are: how much money, how many businesses, and how many jobs went with them? Unintended consequences? Those stupid bastards keep doing this sort of thing, and never seem to be able to learn any lessons. I’m beginning to think the result IS intended.
September 26th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Markie Marxist sez: “I detect a lack of Marxist bloodthirstiness in Governor Paterson’s words. That may be why we’re pushing his political career into the Hudson and hoping that it sinks. Permanently.”
“Andrew Cuomo, on the other hand, is likely to want to impose the penalty of impalement for gun possession. He owes gun owners big time for putting his father out of office. We like him. A lot.”
September 28th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Then why, David, did you lead the charge to tax the rich? Will you now repent your evil ways, reduce the taxes and beg the rich to come back and create a few more jobs?
Yeah, right!
But the funniest thing is that, no matter who the libbies try to stick it too, they wind up hurting the people they are supposed to be helping. As Will says, you have to wonder if that was the plan all along.