I moved from New York to Florida – Request by Gov. Hochul will not bring me home
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul made a surprising decision two weeks ago. Speaking at Politico’s “New York Agenda: Albany Summit” on March 11, the governor said his country now lacks the “high-cost” citizens needed to pay for the “open communication systems we want to have.” Hochul said some wealthy “patriots” have stepped up to help fill the government’s budget gap, and that, sure, it’s okay to write him a check. But if you really want to help, Hochul implored his wealthy followers, “go to Palm Beach and see who you can bring home, because our tax base has been eroded.”
Hochul sounded exasperated as he delivered this last line, as if it was the fault of his fans – who wrote him checks to support his struggling status – that their rich friends left for hotter pastures.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said recently, “There were people who could only work in an office in Manhattan, and they were hostages of our state.” They are no longer captives. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket)
His comment was surprising because, well, Hochul played a big role in forcing those Palm Beachers in the first place. In 2022, Hochul said, “Just jump on the bus and go down to Florida, where you belong, okay? Get out of town because you don’t represent our values.”
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He was talking to Republicans, and they heard him loudly. And he was not alone in speaking like this. In 2014, his predecessor, Andrew Cuomo, made similar comments. “The extreme conservatives,” he said, citing policy positions such as abortion and gun rights, “have no place in New York state, because they are not New Yorkers.”
And these are “moderate” Democrats in the state!
Those who can go, go. The deluge began under Cuomo and continued to accelerate under Hochul.
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Did they really not think they were doing their own tax base? Who did they think was paying for the wonderful, expensive social services? Green-haired protesters who elected Mayor Mamdani?
The words of New York Gov. Kathy Hochul played a major role in forcing New Yorkers to flee Palm Beach, Fla. in first place for the past few years. (Julia Nikhinson/AP Photo)
Cuomo could be forgiven for not realizing, back in 2014, that he needed the tax base more than they needed him. But Hochul’s comments came two years into the pandemic, after people like me had long since left, and it was clear that remote work had changed the workplace. Hochul says as much in a recent clip: “There are people who could only work in an office in Manhattan, and they were hostages of our state.” They are no longer captives.
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My family moved from New York City because Hochul worked for the teachers unions and refused to open public schools that were needlessly closed while private schools were opened. When schools finally opened in full — a year after states like Florida — children were kept covered in 2022, even outside, sitting down to eat lunch and hiding between bites, despite being at very low risk of COVID. Meanwhile, Hochul, who is in his 60s and therefore at high risk from COVID, has been seen wandering around the country without a mask.
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Some New Yorkers left because the chaos on the city streets was getting worse, and they were too scared to talk about it. The immigration crisis has escalated, and New Yorkers have been told they must continue paying for hotel rooms or credit cards for illegal immigrants, lest they be seen as sympathetic to Donald Trump. Homelessness was also getting worse, with children begging on the street – characteristic of third world countries – from what was once America’s treasured part of the city. We left because everything went wrong, and the New York state government didn’t care.
It wasn’t taxes – or it wasn’t just taxes, anyway. Not exactly the same as the Onion’s headline from 2010: “8.4 Million New Yorkers Suddenly Realize New York City Is a Terrible Place to Live.” New York was always a difficult place to live, and it was always expensive. What has changed in the last ten years is that it is hard to trust that the people in power are working to make things better.
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Was Hochul saying that Republicans should leave New York? What did he mean when he nominated the Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani? Who knows? It became impossible to believe that the ruler was working for anyone except the special interest groups that supported him.
It’s not just super-rich New Yorkers who are looking around and realizing that their taxes were not being used properly. There are still plenty of non-billionaires and multi-millionaires. The fabric of the city changed. No, Gov. Hochul can no longer hold the people of New York “hostage.” It is too late now to bring them “home.” They’re home — it’s not New York anymore.
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