Hawt Ireland to impose 90% tax on banker bonuses

Except it's kinda been proven that they don't just up and leave dear. (with regards to bankers, not rich rock stars etc) It's a great scare tactic that the government use to not tax their mates though.

nope.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703574604574499772371161800.html

An old saying goes that the time to live in New York is when you're young and poor, or old and rich—otherwise, you're better off somewhere else. That wisdom is getting an update this week from a study by the Empire Center for New York State Policy that shows middle-class people leaving the state in droves.

Between 2000 and 2008, the Empire State had a net domestic outflow of more than 1.5 million, the biggest exodus of any state, with most hailing from New York City. The departures also have perilous budget consequences, since they tend to include residents who are better off than those arriving. Statewide, departing families have income levels 13% higher than those moving in, while in New York County (home of Manhattan) the differential was even more severe. Those moving elsewhere had an average income of $93,264, some 28% higher than the $72,726 earned by those coming in.

In 2006 alone, that swap meant the state lost $4.3 billion in taxpayer income. Add that up from 2001 through 2008, and it translates into annual net income losses somewhere near $30 billion. That trend is part of a larger march for New York: In 1950 the state accounted for 19% of all Americans, but by 2000 that number had fallen to 7%. The city's main saving grace has been its welcome mat for foreign immigrants, who have helped to replace some of those who flee.

As the study's authors, E.J. McMahon and Wendell Cox, suggest, no single reason can be fingered for a million migrants seeking their fortunes across state lines, but one place to start is New York's notorious state and local tax burden. According to the Tax Foundation, between 1977 and 2008, New York has ranked first or second in the country for its state-local tax burden compared to the U.S. average.

In the years considered by the Empire Center study, New York's state and local tax burden ranged between 11% and 12% of income. The peak year for taxes, 2004, was followed by the peak year for departures—as New York lost nearly 250,000 people to other states in 2005. And that's before another big tax hike this year.
That pattern is consistent with the annual migration patterns, showing that highly taxed and economically lackluster states were most likely to end up in residents' rear view mirrors. According to the annual study by United Van Lines, states like New York, New Jersey, Michigan and Illinois have been big losers in recent years.

In the Empire Center study, two of the top states to send taxpayers to New York—Illinois and Michigan—were also among the worst population losers overall. Greener pastures that drew New Yorkers included states like Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, in addition to the usual suburban locales of New Jersey and Connecticut.
Liberals continue to insist that they can raise taxes ever higher without any effect on behavior, but the New York study is one more piece of evidence that this is a destructive illusion.
 
nope.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703574604574499772371161800.html
Liberals continue to insist that they can raise taxes ever higher without any effect on behavior, but the New York study is one more piece of evidence that this is a destructive illusion.

well, if you knew how things work you'd realize that higher taxes are necessary to fix things after they get run into the ground and looted by conservative jackals. do you think they're doing this to garner a surplus or something? grow a brain, moran.
 
I'm gonna type this slowly for you.


THEY DON'T NEED TO RAISE TAXES.

THEY NEED TO CUT SPENDING.


:)

QFET

The Depression of the early 1920's was in some ways worse then the "Great" Depression of the late 20's through to WWII. However Presidents Harding and Coolidge handled the economic crisis the right way, by first by cutting spending and then cutting taxes. Which is exactly the opposite of Hoover and Roosevelt.

"The business of America is business." - Calvin Coolidge
 
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Tell that to Google, Xerox, Almac, Galen Pharmaceutical, Abbott Scientific, Microsoft, Genzyme Corporation, Pfizer Inc., Bristol Meyers Squibb and many of the other multinationals who relocated operations from England to Ireland when the coporation tax was lowered from 22% to 12%.

If you're in charge of a company, why would you pay more? You're already on a geographical extreme, you're already on the timezone extreme, you're already paying enough tax...

oh I'm replying to NME.
We're talking banks, not companys you halfwit.
 
Cut spending how? No one wants to cut spending. Will you volunteer to do without the programs everyone wants? Because not many others will.
 
Everyone wants to cut spending, but when it comes down to it no one really wants to cut spending.

Good luck convincing farmers to go without agricultural subsidies, or poor people to go without welfare or whatever other fat you would trim.

So you might as well toss that argument into the sh*tter.
 
We certainly don't need to add to spending though like healthcare and extended unemployment.

god forbid we do something for own citizens instead of giving the money to halliburton or another country. how crass!
 
Cut spending how? No one wants to cut spending. Will you volunteer to do without the programs everyone wants? Because not many others will.

First off get rid of Base Line Budgeting.

Yes, I will if it means future generations will not be slaves to government on all levels.

Yes, even my sacred cow (Defense Department) should have its' spending cut.
 
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