Originally Posted by loquitur

dc_dux, the notion that racism explains everything is a religious one, based on little but the wish to make it so. Most people have far better things to do with their time and far bigger problems to worry about than the amount of epidermal melanin their neighbors have. Please come up with logical, reason-based explanations rather than mystical ones.

Businesses want to make profits, and will move to where they can do so. If you prevent them from doing so by taking their money away through taxes, many of them will move. You simply cannot disprove that. It is an economic fact of life, no matter how deeply you wish it weren't so. Accusing people who run businesses of being racists is nonsensical. Especially when many of the businesses open in places like China and Vietnam (those pesky yellow people) or Bangladesh (where the people have dark skin). Yeah, must be racism.

I suppose I grouse about my tax bill here in NYC because I'm a racist, too.
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Poppinjay, I know plenty of people from NY who moved to places like TX because of taxes (or whose employers moved there because of taxes). Yes, the upstate economy has been in the toilet but the NYC economy hasn't. Lots of people who have transportable skills get tired of being treated like a sponge from whom money can be squeezed, and if they're business people whose businesses can move, they get tired of the sheer volume of hassle from regulators and unions. I know because a lot of these people are my clients. NYC has many attractioins, and people are willing to pay a lot to live here, but there are limits to everything.