‘Taxes aren’t really high enough for them to be sensitive’: the fears of the wealthy fleeing New York and California were just that
Stop me if you’ve heard it before: Jeff Bezos leaves Washington state for a “billionaire bunker” in Florida. Fellow Washingtonian Howard Schultz moves from Seattle to Miami as the state advanced a 9.9% tax on income over $1 million. Add in Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, plus Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel and Larry…