Comments on: Getting Squeezed By The Parentheses States

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:36:51 +0000

This calls for a great Mark Steyn quote from the Corner:

“Not to be too gloomy, but the country feels like it’s seizing up. It’s as if California and New York have burst their bodices like two corpulent gin-soaked trollops and rolled over the fruited plain to rub bellies at the Mississippi. If you’re underneath, it’s not going to be fun.”

By: KingShamus

KingShamus — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:48:04 +0000

I never thought I’d say this but: God Bless Graydon Carter.

By: finprof

finprof — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:12:55 +0000

Philadelphia actually has a vicious 3.93% *wage* tax (gross, no deductions, no forms to file, no refunds!), not an income tax; this is actually down from 5.00% in the late 1990′s. It takes 3.5% of gross wages from non-residents. New York City’s resident income tax (deductions allowed as on state tax) has a top marginal rate of 3.648%, and it does not tax nonresident income (other than for NYC employees). The state tax is higher in New York.

By: Steynian 373 « Free Canuckistan!

Steynian 373 « Free Canuckistan! — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:35:27 +0000

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By: Ed Driscoll

Ed Driscoll — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:56:57 +0000

King Shamus, I haven't heard that one, but I posted way back in 2002 about a somewhat similar incident involving Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, lighting up a protest smoke in Nurse Bloomberg's face in a private room at the Four Seasons restaurant.

By: The Monster

The Monster — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:35:19 +0000

That Philly tax is similar to the KC, MO “earnings tax”. You owe a 1% tax on income you earn in the city as a non-resident OR any income earned as a resident. Employers withhold and remit, leaving most workers no paperwork to file. The city sends tax bills to professional athletes who come to town to play the local teams, like the Chiefs, Royals, and Wizards when they play at Arrowhead (instead of CommunityAmerica Ballpark in KC, KS).

A lot of the home team athletes live just outside the city limits in places like Leawood, KS, so that they only have to pay the “E-tax” when they’re playing home games. One percent of income may not sound like much to the average person, but when you get millions of dollars a year, effectively cutting it to a half percent is a lot of money. Fascinating how people will try to avoid paying those taxes, huh?

By: Huggy

Huggy — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:09:45 +0000

Watch “Househunters” on cable. Unless that is fake Ms. McCardle is correct. $400,000 for something that would be condemed and torn down in Georgia.

By: Forbes

Forbes — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:00:08 +0000

In a city where a $200,000 salary allows for renting “eight hundred moderately roach-infested square feet in an unfashionable neighborhood of New York” as Megan McCardle wrote the other day in the Atlantic…

Another Urban Legend repeated by Ms. McCardle.(Someone else who moved to DC and believed their IQ went up.)

By: KingShamus

KingShamus — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:34:53 +0000

@ 2: There’s a story about how the WF Buckley and his wife were hosting a shindig at their Manhattan home. Bloomberg was there holding court, giving a lecture about how smoking should be illegal in a bunch of places because smoking was bad for public health, it was disgusting, blah, blah blah. Upon hearing this, Mrs. Buckley turned to Bloomberg, blew a breath of cigarette smoke into his face and said, “How about in my own home?”

God only knows if that shut him up or not.

By: John Higgins

John Higgins — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:30:51 +0000

Remind me again, why do liberals think that the rest of America should follow the disasters of NY and CA?