Could we here in Houston be getting a new neighbor, for at least part of the year? Well, according to Rush Limbaugh, we might -- namely himself.

When I am there working I pay whatever, you know, my rate is based on income for that day in New York. And I try to go as little as possible. If it weren't for hurricanes down here, I would never go up there. New York is the escape valve in case hurricanes are showing up in our area, because of the loss of electricity. So I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to look for an alternative studio somewhere outside New York, perhaps Texas -- another no-income-tax state -- and I'm going to get the hell over there, when a hurricane starts coming our way, 'cause I told Mayor Bloomberg: I'll be the first to lead the way. You know, this is just... I'll sell my apartment. I'll sell my condominium. I'm going to get out of there totally, 'cause this is just absurd, and it's ridiculous -- and it isn't going to work. It's punishing the achievers for the mistakes and the lack of discipline on the part of a bunch of corrupt politicians that have run that city and state into the ground for I don't know how many years -- and I, for one, am not going to take the blame for it.

One of the things that too many of the political class forget is that We, the People are not serfs. We are not bound to the land, and the law does not compel us to live and work in any particular place. In the case of Rush Limbaugh, he can do his job from just about anywhere. That is the beauty of technology today. So if taxes increase in New York to the point that they are prohibitive (especially when there are seemingly politically-based audits conducted yearly), then there is no need for him to stay in New York. And since Texas has a very attractive business and personal tax system, why should Rush not relocate to a place where it is possible to keep more of what he earns AND where the views and values of the populace are more like his own?

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