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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo believes that pro-life activists, along with anti-gay activists and supporters of the Second Amendment, are not welcome in his state.
"Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves," he said. "Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that’s who they are and they’re the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York, because that’s not who New Yorkers are."
“In the same response [during the radio interview], the governor went on to say ‘it is fine’ to be anti-gun control, and anti-choice — as he respects both positions.”
I am Cuomo, I tell people what to do, how to live, and how to vote. I regulate french fries, size of drinks, how to eat, when to eat, and I want all young people to not listen to their parents and to trust me. Oh, and I hate PRO-LIFE Roman Catholics...they are no longer welcome in my state. I am in charge.
beezzer
reply to post by guohua
Gov. Cumo wants a progressive state populated with no-one but progressives.
I say give him what he wants!
(see how long THAT lasts!)
Westchester County Executive Astorino, who has also promised an announcement next month on whether he’ll run for governor, called Cuomo’s comments “just the kind of intolerance that is directly opposite to what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached.”
“New York already leads the nation in chasing away its own citizens because of extraordinary high taxes, so does Cuomo really want to bully millions more away?’’ Astorino said.
“New York’s greatness comes from accepting people of differing points of view. What Andrew Cuomo has revealed by these statements is his true self, because we see just how angry and radical his views are.’’
Cuomo walked back the comments in an open letter to the editor of the New York Post on Sunday, claiming that his words were “distorted” in a story that appeared in Saturday’s paper.
shaneslaughta
I'm embarrassed to be from NYS.
It makes me sick.
xuenchen
Well I guess the next step is to I.D. Conservatives and Liberals?
Maybe an big "C" or "L" on drivers licenses and picture I.D. cards.
Then they could easily prevent "L"s from exiting NY.
I think the gentleman may be having side effects from medications that don't interact well.
guohua
I read that one person said this and it sounds correct.
I am Cuomo, I tell people what to do, how to live, and how to vote. I regulate french fries, size of drinks, how to eat, when to eat, and I want all young people to not listen to their parents and to trust me. Oh, and I hate PRO-LIFE Roman Catholics...they are no longer welcome in my state. I am in charge.
edit on 20-1-2014 by guohua because: (no reason given)
Planned Parenthood continually touts that they gave Martin Luther King their first Margaret Sanger Award in 1966. What they fail to tell the public is that abortion wasn’t legal in ’66. Dr. King wrongly believed birth control would reduce poverty. He also wrongly believed Planned Parenthood was interested in elevating poorer blacks. Their abortion numbers tell a completely different story.
According to the NY State Department of Health, for every 1,000 black babies born alive, 1,223 are aborted. No other racial/ethnic demographic aborts more of their children than are born alive. Yet groups like the NAACP have endorsed this radical bill that will clearly disproportionately impact the black community.
The TooManyAborted.com New York campaign will continue to educate the public about this civil rights issue throughout Black History Month.
In 2010, for Black History Month, The Radiance Foundation created TooManyAborted.com, an abortion awareness campaign that illuminates the disproportionate impact of abortion in the black community. The initiative exposes Planned Parenthood's history of eugenic racism and unaltered present. Today, more than 40% of black pregnancies end in abortion nationwide. And in states like NY, more black babies are aborted than are born alive!
“Now I want to tell you something – I was born and raised in New York,” Hannity said. “I want you to know that and I can’t wait to get out of here. I really can’t. I don’t want to pay their 10-percent state tax anymore. I live in the second-highest property taxed county in the entire country in Nassau County. I can’t wait to sell my house to somebody who wants it. I can’t wait to pay no state income tax down in Florida or Texas. I haven’t decided yet, but I’m leaning Florida because I like the water and I like to fish.”
“Gov. Cuomo, I’m going to leave and I’m taking all of my money with me – every single solitary penny,” he added. “And by the way governor, because I work here – there’s a whole bunch of people that work for me and benefit because I do two shows. And I guess maybe some of them will be out of work, governor. I’m sure you’ll take care of them.”
He will be following in the footsteps of conservative radio talkers Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, who had also fled the Empire State for Florida and Texas, respectively.
In our new edition of the biannual book “Freedom in the 50 States,” we look at the laws of every state in the country to determine which places make it easiest to live and work.
We find that New York ranks dead last on overall freedom.
For one, Mayor Bloomberg famously made New York City the laughingstock of the country by devoting his valuable political capital to that most pressing priority, preventing people from buying sweetened beverages larger than 16 ounces.
Though a judge struck the regulation down on the eve of its enactment earlier this month, the fact that Bloomberg even proposed it says a lot about New York politicians’ beliefs about the role of government in people’s lives.
Not surprisingly, politicians who think their job is to stop you from drinking Big Gulps aren’t particularly sympathetic to your desire to keep your money.
New Yorkers face the highest state and local tax burdens in the country, at 14% of income. Add in federal, Social Security and Medicare taxes, and lower-middle-class workers can end up sending close to 35% of their paychecks to the government.
"We aren't threatening anyone's success," he said. "We are asking those who've done very well to insure that every child has the same opportunity to do just as well as they have. That's how we all rise together!"
That's how our new mayor, Bill de Blasio, put it last night in his victory speech. But "all rising together" is a complicated thing, especially if it means exacting an increased tax on the very wealthy.
It was a linchpin of de Blasio's progressive agenda: The new tax amounts to a half a percent, an amount that might scarcely be noticed among the very rich (with the proviso that many of the very rich notice every penny; that's how they got that way). It would be imposed on city residents who make more than $500,000 a year; the cash would be funneled directly to funding a universal pre-Kindergarten program. It would require a highly unlikely approval from Albany, though de Blasio's huge win might make it a bit embarrassing for Cuomo to frustrate him.
His opponent, and many others, said the new tax would deplete the city's overall tax base as the superrich fled for the hills.
“There are plenty of highly accomplished and talented people in the arts and business in New York who’ve done well, and to go after these individuals, creates a division. It’s class warfare, and it’s unproductive. He should tax banks, corporations, developers to make this city more affordable for all the talented young people now making $30,000 a year here.”
Steve Forbes, who ran for president in 1996 and 2000 in Republican primaries on a flat-tax platform, told me during a telephone interview last week, “Mr. de Blasio should not be picking pockets. He should not raise any taxes. Taxes are a burden that hurts the city’s economy. Wall Street is not going to be the money fountain that it has been in the past. If he really wants to help New York City, he should create an environment where new entities rise up.
“As the late [Citicorp chair] Walter Wriston put it so well, ‘Capital goes where it is welcome, and stays where it is well-treated.”
But I think [tax hikes are] a terrible idea and I think it will drive individuals out, and corporations eventually. They will go to Connecticut and New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It will hurt business over the long run, and that hurts our homeless people. If business is good, tax revenues will increase, and that will support things like job training and affordable housing.”
Tax hikes targeting the wealthy have caused famous flights before. When France’s current Socialist president Francois Hollande proposed a 75 percent tax of citizens earning over 1 million euros a year, the country’s biggest movie star, Gerard Depardieu, simply moved one mile over the border into Belgium. In the 1970s, when the tax rate in the U.K. was raised to 90 percent for some individuals, members of the Rolling Stones fled to France and then to America. We were only too happy to welcome the huddled masses of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood. Presumably they’ve paid taxes here at a lower rate, and we did get “Exile on Main Street,” dedicated to their tax exodus, out of it.