Start spreading the news. Rush is leaving New York. Rush Limbaugh appeared on Your World with Neil Cavuto on the Fox News Channel. He talked about how the new tax scheme from the un-elected Governor of New York, David Patterson, is the final straw in leaving the state for good.
Rush moved to Florida, a state with no state income tax, in 1992, but he still works 15-20 days per year in New York City. David Patterson has bragged about Rush leaving.
Rush responded this way: Fine. He doesn’t want my tax money, then he’s not going to get it.
Well, if they’re glad I’m leaving, Neil, then I assume that the governor of New York has no interest in the tax revenue he collects from me, in which case I would ask him to call off his audit dogs. You know, one thing that hasn’t been reported in this — and I’ve mentioned it each time I’ve talked about stopping doing business in New York — is I left New York as a resident in 1997. I moved down here to Florida, and I have been audited every year. This has been going on since ’97. This is 12 years that I have been audited. The most recent audit is for the last three years.
Rush said, They’ve got their own separate welfare state that people like me are promoting in New York, and yet we’re held out as the villains. We’re the ones that are considered to be the problems. We’re the targets: the evil CEOs, the evil rich and so forth. I think that in an economic climate like this if they’re going to raise taxes on people, they ought to start whining and dining them. They need to be thanked. These people need to be praised and encouraged to keep working and earning money so that New York can siphon it from them.
