From The Daily Signal we get the following: Hochul Begs Wealthy Floridians to Return to New York. She Can Pound Sand.
New York’s desperate governor is turning to a well-known practice in New York City: aggressive begging.
While speaking at Politico’s “New York Agenda: Albany Summit” last week, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, admitted that the state’s tax base has eroded and that it faces a deepening fiscal crisis.
She then put out a call for wealthy, former New Yorkers to come back to the state so they can be robbed again by beneficent government overlords.
The irony in the situation (I always try to look for the irony) is that it was not that long ago, that Kathy Hochul was telling New Yorkers, who dared to disagree with her, to get the F- outta town. Now she's upset that they took her at her word. See the embedded post from X below.
She makes the point that remote work is to blame. In my lifetime, if you wanted to work in certain industries, you would need to commute to an office in a city center. In many ways, cities like New York are a 19th century (or older) solution to a communications problem. If you need to speak with someone, at a rate faster than mail correspondence, you needed to spend at least some part of the week in close proximity to that person. As communications technology improved, that requirement to be in the same location has disappeared.
🚨BREAKING: New York Governor Kathy Hochul is facing BACKLASH after telling Republicans to “jump on a bus and head down to Florida” not long ago. Now, she’s urging wealthy New Yorkers to come back to New York. pic.twitter.com/GzsoUtxHlq
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) March 19, 2026
So, does Kathy Hochul want Republicans to leave New York, or does she want them to come back and pay taxes? She should really make up her mind.
As for the people who left, I doubt many will be heading back to the nightmare state that is New York.
What is absolutely comical yet depressingly sad is this behavior exhibited by the Guvner.
ReplyDeleteFantastically funny for obvious reasons. Stupifying sad because this is one who has risen to a position of power yet seems impossibly unaware of the great magnitude of her buffoonary.
Certainly not by merit.
She has realized that people are no longer trapped by their industry. Mamdani has a way to go on that front. Wall Street is moving out of NYC, and with the crime and the cost of living, so are other businesses.
DeleteI've said for years that cities like NYC and Chicago are a 19th century solutions to communication problems. People who needed real time or near real time coordination needed to be in the same location. With phones, email, Zoom, etc. that is just no longer the case. At one time, Wall Street needed everyone in the same room for the open-outcry auction systems that ran markets. Not any longer...
Add in the Progressives determination to turn all of the cities into hell holes, and why would anyone want to live there beyond their early 30s? Crime. Cost. School quality. You might look past that in your youth for the quality of the nightlife. (I certainly did) But that ends eventually.