Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: Taxes

Episode Date: May 8, 2024

Bill breaks down the tax situation. 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

So Cindy Adams is a column today, and Cindy is a friend of mine, New York Post, and she lists how much money in a bunch of states it would take to earn a year for you to be considered wealthy. Okay? And here is the list. I'm going to save New York for last. West Virginia, if you earn $330,000 you're rich. Mississippi, 334,000. New Mexico, 353,000. Arkansas, 377,000.

Kentucky, 380,000. Indiana, 381. Louisiana, 384. Iowa, $386,000. You're wealthy. Maine, $396,000. Alaska, $425,000. $5,000. You're wealthy up there. And New York drum roll, please, in order to be considered

rich in New York State, you would have to earn a year, $621,000, almost double West Virginia, Mississippi, and the South. And that's because the state takes so much money away from you. all right so you don't have it the take-home pay is like California we don't have the data because California is so chaotic out there and real estate if you want to buy a house by the coast in California is insane it's insane in New York City too but not like California so one of the reasons that New York you have to earn so much money is because the government of New York State steals from you and me. So yesterday, in the mail, I got two tickets. One was for doing 38 miles an hour in Queens.

Okay? So it was downhill because I was watching it. It's a 25 mile, which is all New York City, 25 miles an hour. So I was on an incline and it went up to 38. They slapped me with a ticket. The other was in Nassau County, and there was an arrow on the light, and I anticipated the arrow by maybe two-tenths of a second. I wasn't even, I didn't even turn. I just said the wheels and they, $150. They stole $150 from me. Nassau County did. And New York City stole 50, because neither infraction was legitimate.

legitimate. They're ginning it up. And if you look at the amount of tax you pay, you are forced to get an emissions inspection on your car tax. You're forced to get a sticker, okay, that your cars be checked out or whatever it may be. Any kind of service that you use, medical, real estate, anything. If you fly a certain, a property of a certain amount of money, you got to pay a mansion tax, tax, tax, tax, tax, tax. This is socialism. It's because New York state legislators cannot discipline themselves to stay within the budget because they give away so much money to buy votes. They're not giving it away for programs that work. They're giving it a way to buy votes. So New York, look, I love the state. I got deep roots here. Raising Levitown, Long Island,

don't want to move. But boy, they're pushing to me and pushing me and pushing me. And I bet you feel the same way too. Some people can't move. I can. I don't want to. But boy, I'm getting tired of it.