So LOL, let's discuss the issue of taxes

[Ballygrl]

As we see by Denise Rich renouncing her US citizenship because of taxes, how is it that the left doesn't get that? here's another story on the issue of taxes, how many of us ever had jobs given to us by poor people? I wish they'd just admit what's behind their real motives on raising taxes, it's to make as many people as miserable as they are, instead of pulling themselves up by the bootstraps they'd rather take others down with them.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/48120446

In Maryland, Higher Taxes Chase Out Rich: Study

Published: Monday, 9 Jul 2012 | 5:13 PM ET

By: Robert Frank
CNBC Reporter & Editor

A new report says wealthy Maryland residents may be moving out due to recent tax hikes – a finding that is sure to escalate the battle over taxing the American rich.

The study, by the anti-tax group Change Maryland, says that a net 31,000 residents left the state between 2007 and 2010, the tenure of a "millionaire's tax" pushed through by Gov. Martin O'Malley. The tax, which expired in 2010, in imposed a rate of 6.25 percent on incomes of more than $1 million a year.

The Change Maryland study found that the tax cost Maryland $1.7 billion in lost tax revenues. A county-by-county analysis by Change Maryland also found that the state’s wealthiest counties also had some of the largest population outflows.

In total, Maryland has added 24 new taxes or fees in recent years, Change Maryland says. Florida, which has no income-tax, has been a large recipient of Maryland's exiled wealthy.

“Maryland has reached the point of diminishing returns. We're taxing people too much and people are voting with their feet," said Change Maryland Chairman Larry Hogan. “Until we change our focus from tax increases to increasing the tax base, more people are simply going to leave, leading to a downward spiral of raising revenues on fewer citizens."

-Continued at the link-

[jukin]

Illinois raised taxes had less tax revenue and got higher unemployment.  Works every time it's tried!

[Ballygrl]

Illinois raised taxes had less tax revenue and got higher unemployment.  Works every time it's tried!

And again the left doesn't get it, or I should say they get it but want people to be as miserable as they are.

[thundley4]

Illinois raised taxes had less tax revenue and got higher unemployment.  Works every time it's tried!

And to top it off, the governor is cutting Medicaid payments. That shameless evil rethuglican, oh wait, he's a DemonRat.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Liberal policies are constructed under the assumption that:

1) you'll just sit there and take it

2) they'll one day have enough power to make you sit there and take it

[MrsSmith]

Liberal policies are constructed under the assumption that:

1) you'll just sit there and take it

2) they'll one day have enough power to make you sit there and take it

I think it's worse than that...they never actually think about it long enough to figure out that people might DO something to change what they pay.  And this despite their love of taxing things to force people to buy insurance or eat less sugar.  It is truly a type of insanity.   

[BEG]

Great thread Bally. Won't change anything in their sheeple mind but excellent thread nonetheless. H5

[Karin]

Something else that pisses me off is like when Rush left New York.  Patterson laughed, saying, "we would have raised taxes earlier if we knew how to get rid of him."  I wanted to throttle that idiot.  It's juvenile and self-defeating, and not something a serious person would say. 

Even Cuomo gets that there is no future in being the tax capitol of the country.  Astounding for a democrat.  St. Lawrence County spends money like a drunken sailor, and is a serious addict for the cash.  The demos there wanted to jack up the sales tax even more, but the Repuke senators put the kibosh on it.  They were madder than a wet hen.  It's cow and Amish country up there, BTW.  People barely get by, and live very spartanly.  This is no Manhattan. 

[Freeper]

Illinois raised taxes had less tax revenue and got higher unemployment.  Works every time it's tried!

All they care about is punishing the rich, they would rather have every citizen as poor as a church mouse than to let an evil rich person keep a dime more than they think they should have.

The Dims are going to try to spin the tax cut battle as the GOP trying to hold tax cuts for the middle class, the GOP needs to counter that as the democrats are holding the tax cuts hostage.

[thundley4]

All they care about is punishing the rich, they would rather have every citizen as poor as a church mouse than to let an evil rich person keep a dime more than they think they should have.

The Dims are going to try to spin the tax cut battle as the GOP trying to hold tax cuts for the middle class, the GOP needs to counter that as the democrats are holding the tax cuts hostage.

Obama is already using the "hostage" bs.

[jukin]

This gentleman said it best.

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
Winston Churchill

[diesel driver]

Rush made a statement on his show yesterday, said that ALL the states that have Republican governors have the lowest tax rates and the lowest unemployment numbers in the US.

Dims, not so much.