Good. Maybe you can find a way to get rid of them and get us down to 10th or something like it. Maybe raise some more taxes.
I assume without checking this is by net worth?
By the way, there is this little place down below called "The Big Apple." It used to be the center of the universe for all intensive purposes. There are still quite a few millionaires there, since they own a hell of a lot of real estate there, and really like the culture. A bunch already hightailed it to Florida (no income tax, and Texas, no income tax)...But of course a whole hell of the "future" millionaires who will be the "job creators" moved on out already so I don't know what your little book of figures will tell you in ten years. My guess it will be around 7 or 8 on the list.
How do you think Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia and Texas got on that list? I bet none were on there about 30 years ago.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Out-source of pain By JOHN AIDAN BYRNE Last Updated: 4:44 AM, August 1, 2010 Posted: 1:26 AM, August 1, 2010
Jobs are fleeing the US for lower-cost countries at an alarmingly higher rate.
Information technology, finance, back-office staffing, call-center and manufacturing firms are setting up shop abroad amidst a record trade deficit, soaring unemployment -- and a protectionist movement at home led by New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer, The Post has learned.
The US shed some 5.38 million manufacturing jobs alone between 2000 and 2009 -- 2.4 million attributed directly to our trade deficit with China -- Commerce Department data shows. New York state has been hard hit, losing 272,000 jobs in the same period.
The job-loss forecasts are frightful: Over 1 million back-office jobs will be lost to offshoring -- jobs created by US firms abroad instead of here at home -- between 2000 and 2015, according to The Hackett Group, a global strategic advisory firm. About 100,000 back-office jobs move out of the US each year, double the 2004-2005 level, the company says.
"The situation is very serious and I think it is going to get worse," said Robert Scott, senior international economist at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) in Washington, DC, referring to the record US trade deficit. In May, according to the Commerce Department, America's trade deficit expanded by $42.3 billion, its highest level in 18 months. The monthly trade deficit with China soared by $3 billion, to $22 billion. America businesses shipped $152.3 billion of goods and services overseas in May -- an increase of just over 2 percent from April -- but then imported $194.5 billion, a jump of 2.9 percent.
Scott said the consensus among economists is for the deficit to keep growing through 2012.
With the official national unemployment rate at 9.6 percent -- and heightened economic anxiety among voters -- a protectionist political mood is building. NeoIT Advisory says the political mood today regarding the loss of US jobs to overseas locations is the most heightened since 1999.
Indeed, Sen. Schumer is proposing a $0.25 excise tax on any customer service call originating in the United States that is then handed off to an agent working out of a foreign call center. The company that transferred the call gets whacked with the fee..........................>>>>...............>>>>.................http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/out_source_of_pain_AdkCRvpScy5WLN2Sc96rUK
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