If they weren’t paying taxes in the first place, their departure only improves the environment.
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'Flee'?! Like cockroaches when the light is turned on?
Ooo let's make it nationwide then
% of profits made in the state off standard pricing, tax the company. The company can choose to not sell their products in the state. If Google/Apple/whomever decides they don't want their products used in the state and lose 40m customers, that's their choice.
Go one further. If a company doesn't want to make it's product available in an area, that area has full access to all of its intellectual property and anyone can duplicate their work and profit off of it.
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“Leave” as in claiming their primary residence is in Florida while spending all of their time in California.
Puerto Rico does it right. In order to claim primary residence there you have to physically be there for something like 180 days of the year without any travel. States need to do that too.
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I live in a regional hub in a red area. All the people who live in the surrounding counties split their time between shitting on the "big city" and spending all their time here without paying any taxes
California is pretty strict about taxing you if you spend too much time there.
I'm in Washington state (no state income tax) and have had colleagues who've spent a lot of time in California warned by payroll that they're approaching the limit on time before you're deemed a tax resident (maybe 180 days per year, but I'm not sure).
In particular, any part of a day spent in California counts as a whole day, as I understand it. So if you fly in on Monday evening, spend Tuesday and Wednesday, then fly back Thursday morning, it's 4 days.
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If you can't contribute anything but only take take take, then get the fuck out of the whole country while you're at it. And stay out!
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A.) No they're not
B.) If they do, then good for everyone in California. Let them dodge taxes elsewhere.
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They won’t leave. They’re just trying to scare idiots into voting for policies that only benefit the rich and their ilk.
they tried this with zohran in nyc, none left. RICH people wont live in red hellholes like kentucy, nebraska or alabama.
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Exactly they won’t move, this is like when people threaten to move if something happens, and when it does happens, nothing.
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This happened in NJ and the billionaire who “left because of taxes” has both returned to the state since and pretty consistently stated he did not leave because of the tax hike and never said that was his motive. While I am sure these scumbags will do whatever is necessary to avoid paying taxes my point is don’t expect the media to not propagandize here.
The narrative being built is clearly one to make the average person think “increasing taxes on the wealthy will hurt us!” This is what happened in New Jersey. “If the tax increases are passed and David Tepper leaves it will cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars and ruin everything!”. It’s that domestic abuse shit; “you should just let me exploit the fuck out of you and if you don’t I’ll bail and it’s your fault for not letting me continue to do so”. Also fwiw while Tepper left NJ was fine and while his loss was notable to the tax budget it was not insurmountable by any means. NJ and California are already quite wealthy states.
If the billionaire class really had taxes as their top priority, or even near the top; they would have moved to Nigeria or something a long time ago. Instead, they stay in “commie-fornia” with high taxes … wonder why??? [because of so many reasons, from infrastructure to knowledge base…]
I'm threatening to move if my landlord persists on collecting rent, that should get him to back off
No they won't.
It's like how people say they're going to delete their account and go outside.
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Let them flee all the way to Russia. Billionaires shouldn't exist in the first place.
The ultra wealthy said the same thing about New York City, they aren't going anywhere.
Your taxes don't mean shit to the state if all you do is look for reasons not to pay them, and don't pay them.
Yet another benefit of the wealth tax.
Taxes don't have to care where you live. If done properly, all that matters is where the assets are. You want to do more than $1B(or whatever number makes sense) of buisness in California? You need to create a California based subsidiary to handle it all. And share holders of that buisness pay tax on the value of those shares. Then it doesn't matter where Alphabet or Google or their CEOs are located.
they should pass a law that requires you to pay a 400m exit fee for filing a change of address if your name is peter thiel or larry page, per person, for each member of the extended family
Greedy fucks should be totally stripped of their wealth wherever they go so as to (re)learn what its like down here with us
You don't have to sell it to me I was already in
Threatening people with a good time? A bold strategy Cotton!
This How Money Works video talks about these hollow threats. In short, they probably would leave anyway.
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Bye bitch
Good, making California a more affordable place for California families. I hope one their platinum-plated private jets collides with the others gold-plated mega yacht on their way out and I never have to read this shit from their publicists again.
Bye. Go to Texas or Florida. Next....
Are these the same billionaires who were going to leave New York? Or different ones?
If he leaves the country maybe he'll take his puppet Shady Vance with him.
There's plenty of southern states with insanely regressive tax schemes these fuckers could live in.
But you know they won't. Doesn't Peter Thiel notoriously enjoy the liberal young men of San Francisco?
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Sure, go to Texas. See how they like people moving from California.
And remember: Thiel is gay. So I hope he gets the maximum dose of homophobia and hostility from ignorant, prejudicial Texan chuds, too.
He's also ~~obsessed with~~ the AntiChrist, which is a somewhat controversial identity status amongst Evangelical and Baptist Christians.
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People of California: Don't threaten us with a good time. (Also, not like their tax dollars will be missed)
Keep those evil fuckers running!
No, they aren't.
Go. Please go. They say this all the time, I really wish they would.
It wasn’t as if these billionaire parasites were paying taxes anyways.
Lol they already have like 500 homes in like 50 countries. Its either this or a series of Luigi Mangioni-like shootings and imo, I'd rather have these billionaires just pay their fucking taxes.
If they were going to leave it wouldn't be posted like this, as a threat in the news.
Aren't paying taxes if you stay, aren't paying taxes if you leave.
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