FOX: Back in the day, my native New York State feasted on the iconic I♡NY ad campaign, enticing Americans to drop in and spend their dollars in the Big Apple.
But now, we’re being treated to the spectacle of the state’s governor selling… not New York, but Florida!
In a recent press conference, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo blamed a $2.3 billion budget deficit in New York on the compounding effect of federal tax reform on the state’s sky-high taxes. And according to the Wall Street Journal, “(Cuomo) specifically mentioned Florida as an attractive option for New Yorkers who are unhappy with the change in the tax law.”
The Journal article also points out, “Preliminary data show a jump in Florida home purchases by buyers from high-tax states.”
Governor Cuomo’s Sunshine State promo follows on the heels of a Census Bureau report late last year detailing the states that lost residents due to high taxes, overregulation and dwindling opportunities. Leading the list? New York. And it wasn’t just last year – 1 million people have packed and left that once-mighty jurisdiction since 2010.
And what jurisdiction did the Census folks say benefits the most from domestic “in-migration? You guessed it. Florida, where “sunny” refers not only to our climate, but also to our low-tax, business-friendly welcome to asylum seekers from Big Government states like New York and New Jersey. Two decades of sunny conservative state leadership has made Florida the nation’s freest state, according to the Cato Institute.
For us freedom-loving Floridians, however, there’s a rub. It seems all too many blue-state refugees, having found haven from tax-spend-regulate oppressors, turn around and import the very same blue-state politics that caused them to flee in the first place. read more
Stupid sheep progs just bring their politics with them. Can’t learn from their mistakes. Florida does NOT need them.
Here’s something I try to say to everybody I meet here in Florida who has just moved from some liberal, high-tax, northern crap-hole.
“Welcome to Florida! I hope y’all like it here, because if you do, I’ve got to point something out to you. If you do like it here more than where you came from, DON’T VOTE THE SAME WAY YOU DID BACK THERE. If you do, the same thing will happen down here and you’ll find there’s no place to move to anymore.”
@ Uncle AL – hey no worries, I have nooo plan to move to Fla. too flat and too HOT toooo windy if you know what I mean. Best be prepared for those hurricanes I’ll take the snow! I want to go to a place that is RED. Like, leave me the eff alone RED. Upstate NY IS like that but this State is screwed.
AS a native NYer I plan on maybe…Wyoming?? Once my troops get out of HS I AM OUT OF HERE!
We did visit Apalachicola once and LOVED IT, thought to myself ‘I could live here’
“AS a native NYer I plan on maybe…Wyoming??”
Wyoming or South Dakota, both red states and both on Kiplinger’s list of “most tax friendly”, Hope you like cold winters.
About 6 month’s ago I read an interesting article in the WSJ about a NY couple that recently retired and wanted to move to a more tax friendly state. After several months of travelling, they opted to move to South Carolina. I then looked at the comments. Of the first 15 comments, 90% of them were from South Carolinian’s who all voiced the same worry ,”Please don’t vote. We got a nice thing going here, don’t dilute our values with your dopey leftist beliefs”. I had to laugh.
CALI,OR,WA are showing up everywhere here
in Galveston Co.They have infested Austin.
Dallas & Houston are next.Yes,they bring their
“co-exist” bumper stickers with them…
A little late, Florida, but welcome to the party. This is what happend to Oregon over the last 40 years, and now we are solid blue, with a democrat super-majority in the state legislature. All thanks to Californication (a term invented by Oregonians in the 1970’s)
“New Yorkers fleeing to Florida need to leave their terrible blue state policies behind”
… or be fed to the alligators. 😡
In the parking lot of my favorite grocery store was a Subaru with a ‘Red State, Blue Voter’ bumper sticker.
It’s remarkable how many russett taters can be stuffed up a tailpipe with a tire tool.
Living in California since birth, I have a theory about this. Libtards flee first. Just sayen Florida. Ur Fucked.
I may have mentioned this before, but the day I became really truly sure DJT was going to be our next president was when I saw a TRUMP bumper sticker on a Florida-plate Prius.
@ Rich Taylor – Shall we compare the crime rates? The weirdo story rates? NY vs Fla.?
I had a cousin that was stabbed 40 plus times in a bar in Florida, yeah a biker gang story so what, only a couple of years ago, on the wrong territory apparently, perps still not found.
And yes, I like snow, it calms things DOWN.
Anyone that knows me on IOTW, knows this ship pulling into their home town harbor will bring GOOD values, storm or not!
@ OutdoorJohn – I am up to my third Suby and it makes for a great road trip and get back and forth to work vehicle, GREAT mileage, great safety factor for the troops. With the correct oil changes, 225K miles, all so far.
Love the outdoors, Love the 2A, Love me Liberty. Cars likes hats make no bit of difference. Both are the ultimate form of LIBERTY.
Currently, our other car is a Ford Escape 2010, used with 95K on it and I LOVE it!
Suby is kinda pansy / lib, I get it, but quite efficient and the Ford is for the fun family getaways.
On the back of the Ford is ‘Keep Christ in Christmas’.
MAGA2016
KAG2020
Couple of good comments – and advice to not bring liberal attitudes with you when you move to a red locale. It probably won’t be heeded though.
RE the californicate comment – ‘Don’t californicate Idaho’ was a common bumper sticker there in the early 70’s. CA,OR,WA (I lived in WA for 25+ years – left almost a decade ago post retirement) are lost. causes……………
Florida “New York with the heat turned up” that’s why I fled from NY to Tennessee
They’re not fleeing. They’re infiltrating.
Dumbasses like cuomo drove them out, and now he is complaining.
Yep, they do what the illegals do. They flea a craphole for a better place to live, then immediately start turning the new place into the same kind of craphole they ran away from.
‘Don’t visit Californian Idaho’,
I promise!
Watched Dateline,
Too many sick murdering Mormons there,
I’m out,,
That goes for Texas too, New York, California, etc….(BTW, Oklahoma City, Shreveport and Jackson Mississippi are really nice too!)
Same for Arizona…the Californicators are bringing all their liberal CRAp with them….we just elected a radical left-wing bi-sexual senator fer GAWDS SAKE. But, she did replace a never-Trump republican so……………..