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This story has been told a thousand times. It was an annual tradition for Bear Sterns to threaten to leave the city over taxes. They went out of business before
by tootie 6y ago
This story has been told a thousand times. It was an annual tradition for Bear Sterns to threaten to leave the city over taxes. They went out of business before they could do it.
If you've been here 18 years, crime is still way below what it was when you arrived. We're at about the level we were 10 years ago. Not great but not the worst we've seen. I've been here since the 90s and it was pretty bonkers then but people flooded in anyway.
Also I'm hoping this tax rise is a prelude to statewide single-payer healthcare which is also on the legislative agenda. You can move your business to Florida or Texas and you'll be sending your tax dollars to Covid-deniers and insurrectionists.
- fennecfoxen 6y agoThe last paragraph of this comment reminds me of the New Yorker cover, "View of the World from 9th Avenue." Just add a judicious "insurrectionists" label on the far side of "New Jersey".
- tootie 6y agoHey, I resemble that remark!. But seriously I'm specifically thinking of the state governments of Florida and Texas as being two of the worst. Both in terms of poor government and their impact on the nation as a whole. I don't think it's an unreasonable point of view either when you see the reactions of even Fortune 500 companies to the nonsense in Georgia.
- cltby 6y agoBetter than sending them to grievance peddlers and commie sympathizers!