Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 7 months ago‘Millionaires tax’ has already generated $1.8 billion this year for Massachusetts, blowing past projectionswww.bostonglobe.comexternal-linkmessage-square47fedilinkarrow-up1548arrow-down13
arrow-up1545arrow-down1external-link‘Millionaires tax’ has already generated $1.8 billion this year for Massachusetts, blowing past projectionswww.bostonglobe.comPotatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml · 7 months agomessage-square47fedilink
minus-squarebrbposting@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·7 months agoMy memory of it: New York takes in outsize revenue from very wealthy people. Flight of wealth becomes critical funding issue. To partially mitigate the problem, it becomes worthwhile to investigate those who claimed to be leaving. Flight of wealth remains critical funding issue. So, yes, I was describing fraud - and the investigations thereof driven by out migration. Does my comment seem less of a non sequitur now? :)
My memory of it:
New York takes in outsize revenue from very wealthy people.
Flight of wealth becomes critical funding issue.
To partially mitigate the problem, it becomes worthwhile to investigate those who claimed to be leaving.
Flight of wealth remains critical funding issue.
So, yes, I was describing fraud - and the investigations thereof driven by out migration. Does my comment seem less of a non sequitur now? :)