Greg Abbott threatens "100% tariff" on New Yorkers moving to Texas
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said he would "impose a 100 percent tariff" on New Yorkers moving to Texas.
“After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC,” the Republican wrote on X on Monday night.
Abbott’s post came on the eve of New York City’s mayoral election, in which Democrat Zohran Mamdani is the frontrunner. He is facing former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo—who is running as an independent after Mamdani emerged victorious in the Democratic primary in June—and Republican Curtis Sliwa.
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What the fuck does that even mean?
Nobody knows what it means, but it's provocative....
Seriously, they know republican voters still don't know what a tarif is.
But they're conditioned to support tarrifs and be against taxes, so Abbott can't say he's taxing them.
And he definitely can't say it's a "wealth tax"...
Like, dude went full circle and accidentally became a full on communist, probably without even realizing it.
Would republicans support taxing wealth if it’s the “right ethic group”
Germany totally “taxed” wealthy Jews at some point.
This is stupider...
He's threatening to tax wealthy New Yorkers who leave NYC after Mamdani is elected.
He should be incentizing those moves to stoke fear the wealthy would flee NYC, or at least pretending to mean that so that common new yorkers might vote against their own best interests
Like, theyve been trying to use "the wealthy will leave" right up to election day, then 180'd to "the wealthy can't leave".
The wealthy are already voting for Cuomo
I wouldn't assume that, I bet there are a bunch of wealthy cat ladies on Staten Island voting for Sliwa....
Me big important! Say big word! trump! win over woke!
Groceries! Ever since I learned that word my life has changed. Groceries, who would have thunked it!
For every human that is moved into the state of Texas from New York you must transfer ownership of another human to the state.
Uhauls gonna get expensive!
It means that piss baby either doesn't know tarrifs work, or that he's just a lying shitbag that knows his retard supporters don't know how tarrifs work
dummycrats don't know nothin. thats why you pay all the tarrifs.
They're now using that word to mean... What exactly?
Prove the ignorance of Texas Republicans?
About 6 months ago I started tariffing things and people just in every day speech. Kid won't eat his vegetables? Tariff. 5%. Keep it up, see how it goes, buddy. Water cooler empty at work? That's a 10% tariff MINIMUM.
It sucks when your crafted absurdity has such a short shelf life because reality seems intent on anexing it.
Shit's woke, yo! Put a tariff on it!
Don't you fucking coup me! I'll coup you!
"We'll coup anyone we want. Deal with it."
Some LDE billionaire
We get Texas commercials in Seattle, lmao. Who the fuck wants to willingly go there.
Texas is a massive rich petro-state with zero social safety net, I can't think of a more stupid ideology about the best way to run things than the way people do in Texas.
The power grid bullshit alone is murderous to vulnerable people.
DO NOT move there!
Roger, Roger
Look, if you're a Star Wars droid, admit it! Then, you don't even need food or shelter...
If you can find good Tex-mex food outside of Texas there's really zero reason to go there.
Is "tariff" now the new "woke"? A term without any meaning that Republicans throw around just to give their brainless followers a starting point from which they can see their deluded fantasies as seemingly rooted in reality?
So something along the lines of: "100 percent tariffs will teach you what happens when you are woke" or some other stupid crap like that.
It's hard to believe, but somehow US news are getting more absurd by the day, even though it should have reached rock bottom long ago...
They've always been doing this to language ever since I can remember. See how they misuse terms like "freedom", "liberty", "patriotic", "political correctness", "activist", and on and on...
Orwell was spot on about the importance of controlling language
People think it's NBD, but the Confederate Party, almost to a one, simply cannot bring themselves to say the proper name of the DemocratIC Party, too. It'd be one thing if it was just the yokels in the base, but no, it's virtually all of them that simply refuse to say the actual name of the opposition party.
I sometimes wonder if that is not related to their other distortions.
And of course the compliant "liberal media" has never questioned them on this. Not that I've ever seen anyway. And the conservatives have been doing this for decades in a coordinated way. Just, for once, I'd like to see some reporter ask one of these assholes a rather basic question: "You know the correct name for the DemocratIC Party. Are you somehow unable to say it? Will you be cast out of the Republican Party?"
Never underestimate an idiot's ability. You push them into a well and they'll just keep digging down.
He's probably trying to use it as some code for taxes that the chuds won't freak out about. If it's just a tariff, then it can be negotiated and exceptions can be made or something.
Any New Yorker who actually chose to move to Texas would probably deserve it.
Can we just put a tariff on anyone entering Texas? Cut down on adminstration costs?
A guy cut me off in traffic today, so I tariffed the hell out him at the next light.
That's what this idiot sounds like.
The fuck does that even mean?
Does that mean NYC can bar Texans from trading on the NY stock exchange?
Let's just ban Texas. From everything, everywhere.
No one’s interested in your “lone star out of five” rated shithole of a state.
Fascist says some nonsense bullshit is always a distraction, never newsworthy and best left unshared.
This is epic nonsense bullshit and was shared because it is so fucking ridiculous it made me spit out my coffee.
Yeah, i feel that. I think that in this attention economy it's important to focus on the real.
I don't fully understand why the fascists want us all focusing on BS, but we shouldn't be giving them what they want.
This is hilarious. The only people who'd want to move to this shithole are the fucking horrible ones, so he's doing exactly what trump is doing: trying to fuck over the people that support him.
The conservatives are just complete assholes. That's the ideology, full stop. A license to be a total asshole.
Uhh.... 100% of what? Is that guy demented too?
Do any of these morons understand how anything works???
So here we have a spectrum of Republicans.
I mean honestly that on its own, in isolation, is pretty reasonable, Texas has massive property taxes compared to almost every other state, she's telling Abbot to stop wasting time messaging gibberish to idiots, she's worried about her potential constituents.
Ok, so uh, I guess we just don't need a functioning, funded government in Texas. Eagleman is apparently pro-shutdown of the state of Texas... Aka, a libertarian? At least this is possibly a conceptually understandable idea, regardless of how stupid that idea is.
... and now we get to the head-desk level of stupid. Ryan, are the people who voted for Mamdani going to be leaving NYC? ... No? No it would be Republicans. Democrats who hate Palestinians ...who apparently aren't Republican or bigotted enough, or ... Texas enough? I legitimately don't think this person could handle making a flow chart with like, more than 2 nodes.
People move to Texas cause they don't have an income tax. Then they get hit hard by the property taxes.
Where do they think the government gets its money? They have to pay for the roads, schools, fire departments...
Save a buck here just to spend it there.
I mean, presumably, what Abbot is trying to say, is some kind of ... total, 100% tax on their... net worth? Of people moving across state lines?
I dunno... I dunno what the fuck a tariff on a person means, but hey, I just have an econ degree, poli sci degree, and career in data analytics and econometrics, I'm not a governor of a state.
Yeah number 3 is really what confused me. Aside from the slight problem that tariffs cannot be applied to a person moving state (making the whole thing not make sense) it seems like he's attacking people leaving left wing districts which would be republicans.
But nice distraction from abbot: where are the Trump-Epstein files
Someone tell Wheels that people are not products that are being imported.
If we want to buy a former new yorker, we now have to pay double?
Someone needs to "Mac and Me" Greg Abbott and his wheelchair.
Oh, wait. This isn't the Onion? I didn't realize Abbott was that stupid.
Dude. Way.
He's just living everyone's favorite bible quote
"I saw that you were struggling and showed you no compassion but a chart of the different tariffs you should be paying for seeking shelter in my general vicinity. Don't you assholes know I am king around these parts? Not about to just let some outsiders or neighbors feel welcome around me! What do you think I am? A dirty Jesuit?"
Well tariffs are prices you charge the buyer when you move goods.
Doesn’t that mean Texans buying New Yorkers would pay a premium on owning humans?
I know they didn’t mean slavery, but it’s far more logical than what he thinks he is saying. And Texas was part of the confederacy sooo…
Moving as in home prices?
Joke's on him, NYC folks are already so used to outrageous home prices they wouldn't notice.
Lol seethe you fucking clown
All I heard was "And we will continue to do any and all absurd shit to distract from the fact that the President of the United States of America is a pedophile".
Cool, so all the rich people who will supposedly flee the communist nightmare will just go to another state.....
Pretty sure that's not going to be a problem, but keep grandstanding for nothing there Puss Baby Abbot! The king of pulling up the ladder behind him cause he got his! Suckers!!!!!
Texas is too big, we should split it up into 4 states.
With 6 additional senators?
Nothing different other than now they are 4 states.
With 4 times the senate votes
Insanity delusion, denial and depression.
Wheels is so dumb
Aren't they trying to build a stock exchange there?
???