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to: IB Joe
from: Alan Ianson
date: 2024-08-31 07:20:00
subject: Re: Cleaning Registration

> Foot Locker Flees New York's Crushing Taxes, Relocates Headquarters to
> Business-Friendly Florida

I wish foot locker every success whether in New York, Florida or anywhere they choose.

> Several companies are leaving/left California and New York citing not just
> any reason... as you might imply.... But because of the Tax and Regulatory
> burden.
Banning books and deregulation are not solutions.

> I forget get what city it is... one of these 3 in Texas... Austin, Dalis or
> Huston... filed this year to be a financial HUB for the south.  Seems that a
> lot of major banks and trading firms are moving to Texas...  Not just for any
> reason... They are citing Taxes and high Regulations.

If I was running a business the bottom line would be a key point in my decision making and location.

> You sit in an other country on the other side of the continent and you tell
> Aaron who actually lives in New York that doesn't know what he's talking
> about.

I never told Aaron that he didn't know what he is talking about. I told him New York was a successful state, because that is what it is.

> BTW, McDonalds is thinking of leaving Chicago... an other liberal Sh!t
> Hole... citing High Taxes, Regulations and Crime.

McDonalds is already a low quality outfit. I wouldn't go there at all if they didn't have regulations.

> When these companies leave they take the taxes they once paid, in this case
> Illinois, and go to a more favorable place... Like Texas and Florida where
> there is no state income tax.

Sure, it's a free country. Live/work whever you like.

> BTW, California was/is the 5th largest economy in the world.  They once had
> tax revenue surpluses... now they have deficits in the 100s of billions.

Things are tough all over.

> Sometimes you just say the stupidest stuff... And you don't support your
> claim and you try to tell the people who are living in the failed state to
> ignore what they see and hear.

I never told anyone to ignore anything.

>> > Chevron Oil is also moving from California.  All complaining about
>> > regulations and high taxes...

Well I wish them a happy tax free..

>> Regulations and taxes are not reason to complain.

> They said they are leaving for those reasons...

They are realities that I don't feel a need to complain about, and understand what they are for, and what they do.

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