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@AThousandYoung

Buy with what, Thousand? The Rich will be gone, and in your socialist existence, your lifestyle will be meager st best. If you try to make more than the guy next door, you will have hell to pay,!!!!!!!! 🤔 hmmmm, hadn’t thought about that.

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You could not be more wrong.

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@teinosuke said
Not before paying their expatriation tax they wouldn't! After that, Trumpistan is welcome to them.
Hey....they would move, pay the tax. Or be saddled with supporting people that they dont even know. Which would you do, Teinosuk? Me, if that opportunity arose, I would pay any tax they want, even 90%, if I could be free from the socialism, marxism which you folks are all for. I would start anew in Trumpistan, and compete with people. Ahhhh, the American way. BTW, do you think the Biden administration will drop the word American from their playbooks? I think it will be discussed, for sure.

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@averagejoe1 said
@AThousandYoung

Buy with what, Thousand? The Rich will be gone, and in your socialist existence, your lifestyle will be meager st best. If you try to make more than the guy next door, you will have hell to pay,!!!!!!!! 🤔 hmmmm, hadn’t thought about that.
California is the richest State in the Union! You are out of touch with reality.

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@averagejoe1 said
Hey....they would move, pay the tax. Or be saddled with supporting people that they dont even know. Which would you do, Teinosuk? Me, if that opportunity arose, I would pay any tax they want, even 90%, if I could be free from the socialism, marxism which you folks are all for. I would start anew in Trumpistan, and compete with people. Ahhhh, the American way. BT ...[text shortened]... stration will drop the word American from their playbooks? I think it will be discussed, for sure.
Good riddance. After you sell your valuable property here in CA it will be cheaper for us to buy.

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@averagejoe1 said
Buy with what? The Rich will be in Trumpistan, and earning food money will be impossible without their jobs. You’ve made my point.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-advisors/062515/where-ultrawealthy-live-america.asp

States With the Wealthiest Americans
While California can lay claim to having the most UHNW individuals, it can't do the same for having the wealthiest individuals. In fact, according to the 2019 Forbes 400 list, the two wealthiest U.S. citizens live in Washington State: Jeff Bezos, whose net worth is $114 billion, and Bill Gates, with $106 billion. Number three on the list is Warren Buffet in Nebraska with $80.8 billion. California claims spots four, five and six with Mark Zuckerberg ($69.6 billion), Larry Ellison ($65 billion) and Larry Page ($55.5 billion).

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@athousandyoung said
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-advisors/062515/where-ultrawealthy-live-america.asp

States With the Wealthiest Americans
While California can lay claim to having the most UHNW individuals, it can't do the same for having the wealthiest individuals. In fact, according to the 2019 Forbes 400 list, the two wealthiest U.S. citizens live in Washin ...[text shortened]... Mark Zuckerberg ($69.6 billion), Larry Ellison ($65 billion) and Larry Page ($55.5 billion).
Now just hold on a second here,,,,,,Duchess, who created this thread, says on the first page to split the country into two parts. She invents the name, Trumpistan, pretty cool. So I and many other Trumpians would go to that country. You mention California above for some reason. She aint talkin bout california, she is saying to make two countries. I wrote some very clear points about what would happen, ....like, how would the non-trump country support themselves without rich people to give them jobs? And, without the taxes that the rich people have paid up to now, which is 50% of all taxes collected ? Who would make your cell phones? Can you build things on your own? A socialist existence. Bartering would be the rule?

Number 1: She would not (could not) from an answer
Number 2: All of you fellers are ignoring this really cool concept created by the Duchess.

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@AverageJoe1
Tell us o financial maven, where is she wrong?
You seriously think if we DID do a split where you ultrarightwingnuts gets the center of the US and the REAL people get the ocean fronts the billionaires would just naturally gravitate to the new confederate states of America?

Give it up. Biden WON. Trump LOST, get the HELL over it. Stop mewling about it and MAYBE, just maybe, you could actually be an American again instead of the anti-democracy stance you have been know for.

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@sonhouse said
@AverageJoe1
Tell us o financial maven, where is she wrong?
You seriously think if we DID do a split where you ultrarightwingnuts gets the center of the US and the REAL people get the ocean fronts the billionaires would just naturally gravitate to the new confederate states of America?

Give it up. Biden WON. Trump LOST, get the HELL over it. Stop mewling about it and MA ...[text shortened]... you could actually be an American again instead of the anti-democracy stance you have been know for.
Settle down , Sonhouse. Whew. First, I dont know what your second para has to do with this thread, so I am shelving it (for future reference!!)

Sonhouse, on page one of Duchess' thread, she speaks (theoretically) of splitting th country. She does not mention California, Idaho, Mississippi,,,you get my drift? If this country is divide into two groups of people who do not get along, there would be Trumpistan, and non-Tumpistan. Think on that for a moment, the clouds will part for you.
Lets say the dividing line runs from middle california to maine. We will flip a coin. No one who'd CARE which side they end up on as long as they can get far away from each other 😛 😛 . So, my point has been that when that happens, the people on OUR side will be the ones who have paid 50% of all taxes, and who create jobs. Need I say more?
Where you fellers gonna be working? For whom? What kind of production can you expect? How are you gonna buy stuff if money will be hard to come by?
And, if people want to migrate to the 'other' respective sides, do you think you and Handy will tend to come to our side, or will Cheesemaster and me tend to want to move to your side?

Thankyou Duchess for the analogy, but it is all upon deaf ears. Especially ole Sonhouse. Do you think he will write about Trump again?

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@averagejoe1 said
Settle down , Sonhouse. Whew. First, I dont know what your second para has to do with this thread, so I am shelving it (for future reference!!)

Sonhouse, on page one of Duchess' thread, she speaks (theoretically) of splitting th country. She does not mention California, Idaho, Mississippi,,,you get my drift? If this country is divide into two groups of people w ...[text shortened]... t it is all upon deaf ears. Especially ole Sonhouse. Do you think he will write about Trump again?
No need to answer, I know this is a tough one.

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@athousandyoung said
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-advisors/062515/where-ultrawealthy-live-america.asp

States With the Wealthiest Americans
While California can lay claim to having the most UHNW individuals, it can't do the same for having the wealthiest individuals. In fact, according to the 2019 Forbes 400 list, the two wealthiest U.S. citizens live in Washin ...[text shortened]... Mark Zuckerberg ($69.6 billion), Larry Ellison ($65 billion) and Larry Page ($55.5 billion).
There has been a shift in the demo. #2 Gates has been displaced by Elon Musk who is Californian but is now moving to Texas.

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@earl-of-trumps said
There has been a shift in the demo. #2 Gates has been displaced by Elon Musk who is Californian but is now moving to Texas.
Oracle, HP, musk, enterprise, many other corps, and 600 thousand people as well. People and corps are LEAVING. Hard to follow lib trains of thought

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