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Tax the Rich. They Won't Leave New York
24 colinprince 14 8/27/2025, 3:55:44 PM rollingstone.com ↗
There seem to be three factors: Taxes on HQ, taxes on employees (always in the state where they work) and personal tax-dodging strategies. Go figure.
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They move there due to peer pressure, not because they like it hot & humid.
Also, he's claiming he owed ~$5 million a year in taxes. Which is a lot, but he spent $93 million to run for governor, and basically flushed all that money down the loo. He apparently has spent hundreds of millions on various charitable projects. So clearly, the taxes are not really burdensome. He just doesn't think he should have to pay them.
These wankers are already optimising to pay as little tax as possible in their home state.
Hence, what does it matter if they threaten to leave or not?
They'll STILL be paying as little tax as possible.
How will higher taxes guarantee that they will be used appropriately?
How are the people guaranteed that officials will not be corrupted to divert that money into other projects?
How will the corruption, the largest problem in modern capitalist economies, be fixed by this?
No real answers, we just have to trust cause hes different?
Democracy is not trust, democracy is control. Don't be fooled.
Of course there is democracy and corruption is much worse in non-democratic countries.
Even the ones you're probably thinking about are capitalist, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Sudan, etc. All capitalists.
Capitalism creates authoritarianism through corruption as a grey market business practice.
But here's one stat I think illustrates how well it goes in practice: the Taliban in full-blown war caused less victims in Afghanistan than communists did in peacetime (in fact less than half. This, incidentally, is the actual reason the Taliban started fighting the west, not CIA support. Communism is STILL one of the western influences that they state they try to eradicate, and I doubt that part of their agenda is very controversial in Afghanistan. And, of course, western socialists never mention this, and especially don't discuss why or how socialism came to Afghanistan, and how it is the direct cause, not CIA support, of the current situation in Afghanistan and Iran)
And this is not an exception in communism. For instance: "peace" in the Soviet Union killed more people than WW2 did worldwide, including the holocaust, hell, include all conflicts the Soviets ever had and it's still true. Hell, include all conflicts in Europe of the entire 20th century and it was still more. Same in China.
So I feel all rational people can honestly say "even if you're right, capitalist authoritarianism is still better", and given that authoritarianism is almost a basic principle of socialism, certainly in practice, I don't understand where they're coming from in the first place.
The Afghan socialists were fighting monarchies, warlords(tribal land lords) and even shitty socialist leaders. - Figures of Soviet deaths are overblown to include non-births and even Nazi deaths, that is the state of anti-communist propaganda these days (right now). There is no denying that Soviets made mistakes, I am no apologist, but the western narrative is wrong on so many accounts that it discredits itself. A country trying to industrialize while undergoing a civil war and foreign attacks had a hard time organizing their agriculture under a drought. It is objectively a massive failure, but it is not inherent to socialist democracy.
What you fail to mention about the world wars is that both world wars were caused by capitalist tensions between nations. Both world wars can be fully attributed to capitalists enrichment and their contradictions between nation states. These are the gashes in humanity caused by capitalist colonialism. -
Let me tell you, Socialism is not something you vote for, its something you do. Democracy takes the efforts of society to make happen.
Neighborhood councils are a fundamental part of socialist theory. Ask yourself why you've never heard of it? Who produces the media content that gets promoted and published? Is it your neighbors with their social interests? Or is it massive capitalist publishers with their interests? The censorship in capitalist societies is about monopoly control and volume/amplification.
Capitalists are a fundamental threat to mass democracy.