A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state.
It’s more ironic to think that those pissy rich people throwing a tantrum about how taxes ruin everything, yet they almost always prefer to live in high taxes places because living there is better.
The hypocrisy would be so funny if it wasn’t so harmful to most people.
If they were just going to leave when taxes are imposed, they wouldn’t be fighting it so hard. They spend huge amounts of money fighting tax increases because they know they’ll stay either way
I mean, only if you think those are genuine hissyfits and not just trying it just because it might work and costs them virtually nothing.
It’s not that say it and back down.
It’s that they say it because it costs them nothing to say it and they might get away with it.