Saw this on a gun forum I belong to. Guy pulled his company out of NY solely because of Cuomo and his total distain for 2nd amendment rights. "Think any company will move INTO NY because of the SAFE act? I wonder if the Governer notices that I moved my corporation, it's employees, and it's assets from NY? We used to be based at the same airport where his state police helicopter is based, operating 5 jets, but now.... we're gone..... forever..... along with all of our tax revenue and impact on the local economy.... that just faded away.........
The truth is that he doesn't know about my company, or the others run by entrapreneurs like me who just very quietly go away. He might notice the lessening of taxes collected as businesses like mine just fold up and leave, but it's like a pool being slowly drained slowly. It's hard to see at first but as the shallow end becomes more and more exposed, the rate seems to increase faster and faster. Eventually the pool is empty.
He really ought to read Atlas Shrugged. I did. And I took my money, resources, and those of my employees (all who left with with me) with me when I left.
You know who notices? The lunch counter where we used to eat. The FBO where we used to buy jet fuel. The catering place that serviced us with food for the jets. AIRGAS no longer sells us nitrogen and oxygen. The Snap-On truck sells us no more tools. We don't buy our company truck at the local dealer, or have it serviced by a local mechanic. We don't pay rent, and my emplyees don't buy any of their services there any more either. No more haircuts, plumbers, or insurance. No dentists or music teachers get paid. Several less kids attend the school system. This is the trickle-down economy that *I* pulled the plug on. Not a comittee, or a stockholders meeting, or a corporate board. The governer upset one key player in the company that I founded, and that is me. The buck stopped here, and it was for the reason of eroding freedoms for myself and my emplyees that I left.
There are others just like me.....
Know what? The FBO that we used to buy a $million in jet fuel from just went bankrupt. They laid off ten people, and closed their doors. Wonder why? How's the economy there, Governer? I can't wait for it to fail, and when it does I'll be reading about it from a thousand miles away.
I did my part, and another state is happy that I've come to town.
Willie