Golisano Shrugs

Sound like Atlas Shrugged, anyone? Tom Golisano, one of the richest men in New York, is fed up with the state government and its continuing policy of raising taxes to spend, spend, spend. After many failed attempts to get elected so he could try to reform the state government, he is now fed up... and is leaving. He will take up residence for most of the year in Florida instead of New York, and therefore avoid paying millions to the wasteful NY bureaucracy.

This article at Cato includes Tom's own words on this matter: The Laffer Curve in Action.

I say, good for you Tom! Too bad more of us aren't in a position to make such a move. Maybe if enough businesses and individuals do so, leaders in Albany would start to make some real changes.