Copyleft, for once you are right-- the rich don't have your best interests at heart, nor should they. I'm going to let you in on a little secret: People that make a lot of money are not making sacrifices, working 12-15+ hours a day running businesses, taking risks that most people are too scared to even think about, so that they can take care of YOU. They are doing it to better their situation for themselves and their families.

You, on the other hand, sit around and think of ways to legally take their money by force, and try to justify it with a bunch of horsesqueeze.

You need to think about that last statement very long and hard, Copyleft, and any other liberal reading this. Just think about it. If you ever wondered why high-achievers view you as parasitic scum of the earth, this should really open your eyes.

I am really aghast with that statement-- seriously. Just who do you think you are, that the rest of the world needs to work extra hard to take care of YOU? And just what are you providing in return? Please, tell me, what do you think makes that "fair"-- what value are you actually providing in return for this so called "right" to be taken care of?

I eagerly await your response.

LOL...I gotta say, you go, Lawrence Stevens! That was funny, I don't care who ya are. *shrug* If I was a wealthy person, I'd be hauling a$$ to Texas, Georgia, or anywhere else except NY or CA. Weather is better down south anyway. There's what, 9 million people in NY? And how few of them are paying all the taxes again? That's just insane. Are the rest of them on welfare? As a long haul trucker, I refused to even deliver there. NY City is just creepy to me. And the cops there never hesitate to use any opportunity to give out tickets to OTR drivers. Guess they need the revenue.

Gotta be honest, Neal. CA and NY can tax the hell out of the rich as far as I'm concerned. Why? Because it will run off capital from those sorry-*ss states and it will, quite likely, end up in TX. Woo-hooo!!! Good on us! We're doing pretty well compared to other states but an additional infusion of capital and wealth-producing individuals into our state's economy will help us further to weather the storm that's coming. Yeaaaaa Governors Patterson and Schwarzenneger! Run off yer rich! We'll take 'em. . . all ya got! Yeee-haaaaaaaaa!!!

"Give me all your money, munch munch munch. Me love to take your money. Munch munch mucnh. Me love other people's money. It's not fair of you not to give your money. Munch munch munch....Don't be afraid, I don't hurt you, unless you don't give me your money!!!!!!"

- Quote from the new PBS charachter about to appear on Sesame Street.

My kids live in New Jersey and commute to New York City. They get taxed coming and going: New York City, county and state tax, New Jersey tax, don't forget the bus/ferry charge.

I don't live there. I get taxed too much. The problem is, those politicians (Democrap, Repoopycan, no matter, they all think they own your bank account) all earn their livings by taxing the living daylights out of one group in order to give a free ride to another group.

Liberals like Coplyleft who commented earlier don't seem to understand the facts and logic behind conservatives positions. I understand that emotions run their reasonings, and facts and logic mean nothing to them, but they don't seam to understand cause and effect that well either. If they don't start listening to reason, then they will continue to screw themselves over. What is going on in NY with the proposed higher taxes to liberals sounds great. But when Neal talks about the exodus of wealthy that will happen Copyleft scoffs at Neal. Does he and other liberals not understand cause and effect, that if the taxes are raised at such a high amount, that many wealthy are not going to just sit around and 'take it' and instead will move out of state somewhere where the taxes aren't so high. It's basic facts and logic, albeit that may be hard for liberals to grasp. Copyleft only plays the emotion card saying that Neal is sounding the "victim" siren and copyleft tries to tell us that the rich don't have our best interests at heart. Copyleft has no idea how the world works does he? Our country grew to be a great country because everyone had their own best interests at heart. Copyleft only focuses on the emotional part completely ignoring the logical argument. Maybe the logical argument is a bit too hard for him to grasp. tisk tisk

Neal, I know most of your fans are glued to the tv mad every day watching fox news instead of doing something fun. But I expect more from you. You should know there was a sequel to Escape from NY, it is Escape from LA. I havent seen it but I heard it wasnt nearly as good. Peace

This is an open invitation to all the wealthy in New York. Close your business and move it and your family to Texas (I like Houston). There is NO state income tax. There is a slightly higher sales tax, but that tax pays for 90% of all state operations. Texas is starting to feel the economic pinch, so a new business will have a ready, able, intelligent and legal (if you use e-verify) workforce. We are a right to work state, so take good care of your employees and they won't unionize. New York can tax whomever they want, but they can't FORCE anyone tho live in that hellhole.

Lets put a face on those he wants to tax. He is taxing the Huxtables. One was a lawyer and one was a baby doc. together the made more then the magical $250,000
So the next time they want to tax the evil rich think the Cosby show and the evil rich that were the Huxtables.

It seems particularly loud lately, doesn't it? "Pity the poor, suffering, abused rich people! Waaaahhh!"

I wonder if enough Americans have figured out that the rich don't have our best interests at heart.