Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said he would “impose a 100 percent tariff” on New Yorkers moving to Texas.
“After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC,” the Republican wrote on X on Monday night.
Abbott’s post came on the eve of New York City’s mayoral election, in which Democrat Zohran Mamdani is the frontrunner. He is facing former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo—who is running as an independent after Mamdani emerged victorious in the Democratic primary in June—and Republican Curtis Sliwa.
Nobody knows what it means, but it’s provocative…
Seriously, they know republican voters still don’t know what a tarif is.
But they’re conditioned to support tarrifs and be against taxes, so Abbott can’t say he’s taxing them.
And he definitely can’t say it’s a “wealth tax”…
Like, dude went full circle and accidentally became a full on communist, probably without even realizing it.
Would republicans support taxing wealth if it’s the “right ethic group”
Germany totally “taxed” wealthy Jews at some point.
This is stupider…
He’s threatening to tax wealthy New Yorkers who leave NYC after Mamdani is elected.
He should be incentizing those moves to stoke fear the wealthy would flee NYC, or at least pretending to mean that so that common new yorkers might vote against their own best interests
Like, theyve been trying to use “the wealthy will leave” right up to election day, then 180’d to “the wealthy can’t leave”.
The wealthy are already voting for Cuomo
I wouldn’t assume that, I bet there are a bunch of wealthy cat ladies on Staten Island voting for Sliwa…