Hochul Makes Desperate Plea to NYers in Florida

It’s change into a well-known fact over the last a number of years that blue states like California and New York have seen a deluge of people flee to purple states like Texas and Florida, where the price of dwelling and doing business is significantly less costly.

It’s change into so well-known, in fact, that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has been busy pushing revisionist spin concerning the tax burden in his state versus widespread vacation spot states forward of an anticipated 2028 presidential bid, falsely proclaiming that those purple states are the “real high-tax states.”

As we reported, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) was having none of it, tweeting that “There are lies, damned lies and statistics. Then there is whatever you’d call the claim that California has lower taxes than Florida.” 

“Even people who like California governance acknowledge CA is a very high tax state: highest sales, income, and gas taxes in the nation,” DeSantis also wrote.

READ MORE: Newsom’s Revisionist Tour Hits Snag When He Makes a Florida Claim That DeSantis Won’t Let Stand

For the last two years, New York state has ranked forty seventh on U-Haul’s annual migration report, “its worst migration rating in a decade.” This is one thing that its Democrat governor, Kathy Hochul, is keenly conscious of – so a lot so that she’s now on report begging New Yorkers who left the Empire State for Florida to come back to help pay for NY’s bloated social packages:

Hochul made the case against caving to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s calls for that she hike income taxes — by saying she not only needs fats cats to keep in town, but also clawing at those who have moved to states with better business climates like Florida.

“Maybe the first step should be go down to Palm Beach and see who we can bring back home because our tax base has been eroded,” the Democratic governor said at a discussion board hosted by Politico last week.

Here’s the full quote:

I need people who are high-net-worth to assist the beneficiant social packages that we would like to have in our state. Right?

Now, there are some patriotic millionaires who stepped up. Okay, cut me the checks. If you need to be supportive, but perhaps the first step needs to be to go down to Palm Beach and see who we are able to carry back home because our tax base has been eroded. So I philosophically do not have a downside, I’ve to look at the fact that we’re in competitors with other states who have less of a tax burden on their firms and their people.

Gee, ya assume?

Watch:

Kathy Hochul making a weak plea for rich people who have left New York (to purple states like Florida) to come back to pay their high taxes to fund failing (unaccountable) social packages:

“I need people who are high web price to assist the beneficiant social packages we’ve in… pic.twitter.com/7quhsFyWyn

— Matt Whitlock (@MattWhitlock) March 18, 2026

Hochul also referred to people who couldn’t beforehand flee her state to work as “captives,” stating that “I would say remote work changed everything.”

“There were people who could only work in an office in Manhattan or work in New York State, and they were captives to our state. They were going to stay. We saw that that’s not the case. Wall Street, businesses looking at Texas?” Hochul also declared.

Her use of the time period “captives” to refer to taxpayers didn’t go unnoticed.

“Gee, I wonder why ‘captives’ might not want to return to captivity?” Charlie Kirk Show producer Blake Neff wrote in response.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul admits that New York’s tax cattle had been “captives” caught in Manhattan, and that distant work enabled 1000’s of them to depart. Now the state goes broke and she’s begging them to return (she also begs “patriotic millionaires” to “cut me a check,”… https://t.co/oy2bVhLXn4

— Blake Neff (@BlakeSNeff) March 18, 2026

You know, a business or a household selecting up and transferring from one state to another is no small factor. It’s costly, and it is time-consuming, with a lot of logistics having to be labored out method forward of time. Not to point out the emotion concerned if some members of the family select to keep. But those who resolve to transfer do so because dwelling/working/doing business there has change into more problematic than it is price for many.

Maybe instead of insinuating that the only “patriotic” Americans are those who need to pay for NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialist utopia, Hochul ought to attempt to do issues that would, you realize, make people need to come back. Because under the current political/financial climate and circumstances, the chance of that taking place to any vital degree is fairly close to zero, no matter how often she goes to Palm Beach to straight make the case herself:

So many New Yorkers have fled South to Florida that New York Governor Kathy Hochul has to now host fundraisers in Palm Beach. pic.twitter.com/uaGojFYMFV

— Reza Chowdhury (@RezaC1) January 4, 2024

Can’t make it up.

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