{"id":21943,"date":"2026-03-19T02:15:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T02:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/hochul-begs-rich-new-yorkers-to-return-from-florida-admits-high-taxes-chased-them-away\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T02:15:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T02:15:53","slug":"hochul-begs-rich-new-yorkers-to-return-from-florida-admits-high-taxes-chased-them-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/hochul-begs-rich-new-yorkers-to-return-from-florida-admits-high-taxes-chased-them-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Hochul Begs Rich New Yorkers To Return From Florida, Admits High Taxes Chased Them Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">New York Governor Kathy Hochul took to a fireside chat this week to essentially beg the wealthy \u201ccaptives\u201d she\u2019s already chased away to come back and fund her socialist fever dreams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\" data-path-to-node=\"1\">Sitting down with Nick Reisman at the\u00a0<em data-path-to-node=\"1\" data-index-in-node=\"38\">Politico<\/em>\u00a0New York Agenda summit, Hochul finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/news\/video-audio-photos-rush-transcript-governor-hochul-participates-fireside-chat-politico-summit?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admitted<\/a> what conservatives have been saying for years: high taxes actually drive people away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">Imagine that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">After years of treating the state\u2019s high-net-worth residents like an ATM with an infinite balance, Hochul is suddenly \u201cconscious of the fact that I need people who are high-net-worth to support the generous social programs that we want to have in our state \u2026 cut me the checks, if you want to be supportive, but maybe the first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who we can bring back home because our tax base has been eroded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\" data-path-to-node=\"2\">Translation? The piggy bank is empty, and the people who used to fill it have realized that Florida doesn\u2019t have a state income tax or a Governor who views them as \u201ccaptives.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kathy Hochul making a weak plea for wealthy people who have left New York (to red states like Florida) to come back to pay their high taxes to fund failing (unaccountable) social programs: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need people who are high net worth to support the generous social programs we have in\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7quhsFyWyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/7quhsFyWyn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Whitlock (@MattWhitlock) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWhitlock\/status\/2034243619616391649?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\" data-path-to-node=\"3\">\u201cRemote work changed everything,\u201d Hochul lamented, sounding like a jailer who accidentally left the cell door unlocked. \u201cThere were people who could only work in an office in Manhattan \u2026 and they were captives to our state. They were going to stay. We saw that that\u2019s not the case.\u201d She even admitted that Wall Street is eyeing Texas \u2014 not because of the personalities involved, but because of the cold, hard math. \u201cThey\u2019re not going there because they have a nicer governor\u2026 they\u2019re going there because of the tax rate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\" data-path-to-node=\"4\">Despite this moment of clarity, Hochul\u2019s solution isn\u2019t to cut spending or scale back the \u201cgenerous\u201d programs that caused the crisis. Instead, she\u2019s asking \u201cpatriotic millionaires\u201d to \u201ccut me the checks\u201d and suggests a recruitment drive in the Sunshine State. \u201cMaybe the first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who we can bring back home because our tax base has been eroded,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\" data-path-to-node=\"5\">Good luck with that. Why would anyone trade a cabana in Palm Beach for a \u201clate night call\u201d from a New York politician demanding money?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\" data-path-to-node=\"6\">The governor also spent a significant amount of time whining about the Trump administration, blaming the former President for everything from the price of gas to her own inability to meet radical climate goals.\u00a0She admitted that her administration\u2019s green energy mandates are \u201cscaring the crap out of everybody\u201d with skyrocketing utility costs, yet she continues to push an \u201call-of-the-above approach\u201d while begging for \u201cbreathing room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">Ultimately, Hochul is a leader in denial. She wants the \u201cgenerous\u201d spending of a socialist utopia but is realizing \u2014 far too late \u2014 that Margaret Thatcher was right: eventually you run out of other people\u2019s money.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/hochul-begs-rich-new-yorkers-to-return-from-florida-admits-high-taxes-chased-them-away\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Governor Kathy Hochul took to a fireside chat this week to essentially beg the wealthy \u201ccaptives\u201d she\u2019s already chased away to come back and fund her socialist fever dreams. Sitting down with Nick Reisman at the\u00a0Politico\u00a0New York Agenda summit, Hochul finally admitted what conservatives have been saying for years: high taxes actually drive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-current-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}