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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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?
They’re now using that word to mean… What exactly?
Prove the ignorance of Texas Republicans?
Don’t you fucking coup me! I’ll coup you!
“We’ll coup anyone we want. Deal with it.”
Some LDE billionaire
Shit’s woke, yo! Put a tariff on it!
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.
Someone needs to “Mac and Me” Greg Abbott and his wheelchair.
Aren’t they trying to build a stock exchange there?
The conservatives are just complete assholes. That’s the ideology, full stop. A license to be a total asshole.
The fuck does that even mean?
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.
Moving as in home prices?
Joke’s on him, NYC folks are already so used to outrageous home prices they wouldn’t notice.
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…
I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC
What the fuck does that even mean?
For every human that is moved into the state of Texas from New York you must transfer ownership of another human to the state.
dummycrats don’t know nothin. thats why you pay all the tarrifs.
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
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!
Uhauls gonna get expensive!
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
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…
Do any of these morons understand how anything works???
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.
