Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: New York Oppression

Episode Date: October 27, 2023

Bill breaks down why many New Yorkers are leaving the state. Originally only available in the New York City area, Bill’s Empire State O’Reilly commentary addresses local New York issues, but those issues have implications, impact the country, and mirror problems in other states. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And we are just chugging along here, quick week, a lot of news. Oh, boy, tremendous amount of news. So later on the broadcast, I'm giving you stats about how many people have left New York in the past 10 years, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. And it's a massive amount of people leaving New York, massive. And I'll give you the reasons why. but the importance of the story really comes down a quality of life all right so americans the good news is that we have freedom of movement and in a capitalist society if you are successful you have enough

assets where you can move or buy second home you know you have freedom in this country and you got 50 states plus territories like the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, even Samoa in the Pacific, where you can go and live and still enjoy the privileges of the Constitution of the United States. But more and more and more, the quality of life in the United States is differing. Okay. And in some states like New York, California, Illinois, the very liberal states, it is becoming oppressive. The taxation is so high, it is hard to assemble assets because the government's taking so much of your money, of your check. In addition, trying to steal stuff from you by phony things like emissions. I had to do this yesterday.

I had to pay 40 bucks to get my car inspected for emissions, whatever that means. That's on top of getting and the car inspected to be on the road. And then you got, you know, the speed traps and every con in the world is trying to separate you, the New Yorker, from your money. Connecticut does it too. Jersey from a lesser extent, but they're in that game as well. So the quality of life, if we were being taxed to the max

and we are the highest taxed state, New York, And the quality of life was good. The roads were perfect. The traffic was efficiently moderated. There wasn't so much crime and disorder on the streets of the biggest city in the state. Then it would be, you know, you'd say, okay, it's a tradeoff. I'm handing the government all this money, tolls and everything else, but I'm getting something back. What are you getting back now?

What? Now, in Long Island, there are some good school districts where the urchings can learn, but as we reported yesterday in New York City, 36% of school children don't show up, which is going to lead to a permanent underclass of criminals who will hurt you, and you see it every day now. So quality of life really is the determining factor. on what you do on a daily basis, what job you have, what recreation you participate in, and where you live. Right? And millions and millions and millions of New Yorkers are going, I don't want to live

here anymore. Even though we have all of the things, we have the best theater, we have the best sports, I mean, the most teams, we have tremendous nature in the state, you know, beaches and mountains. We got everything. But the quality of life is deteriorated so dramatically in the past 30 years under the Democrats in Albany that we're going to a state that offers lower taxes and more freedom. Now, I lived in Florida. I lived in Texas. Too hot for me there. I mean, I'm neutralized from living in those states by the climate. I can't live there. It's too hot for this Irishman. But there are other places, New Hampshire might be too cold.

You know, there's no perfect place. But this is going to continue because there is no move to drop taxes and to improve quality of life right now in this state. And that is the truth.