Kevin O'Leary slams AOC, advises sports teams and businesses to flee blue states and go red

[Suburbia]

Canadian American businessman and social commentator Kevin O'Leary slammed New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's economic proposals this week and said she is "destroying" New York's economic future with high tax hikes from Manhattan and Albany.

O'Leary suggest all sports teams from the Northeast relocate to red states because blue states are "unlivable".

What do you think of O'Leary?

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/shark-tanks-kevin-oleary-declares-aoc-great-at-killing-jobs-on-cnn-calls-new-york-uninvestable/

[Landslide Lyndon]

[YPestis25]

Does O'Leary think AOC is in state or municipal government? Not sure how she has the power to set taxes in Albany or Manhattan.

[Ferguson97]

Why should I care what some random celebrity thinks about politics?

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

AOC herself has a panel of levers and buttons that control everything conservatives hate. This is a well known fact. It sits next to her late term abortion machine.

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

AOC herself has a panel of levers and buttons that control everything conservatives hate. This is a well known fact. It sits next to her late term abortion machine.

also next to the button that makes gas price go up

[Pouring Rain and Blairing Music]

AOC herself has a panel of levers and buttons that control everything conservatives hate. This is a well known fact. It sits next to her late term abortion machine.

also next to the button that makes gas price go up

She did that!

[Benjamin Frank]

He has a point but it's not just high taxes and it isn't just blue states. He's making a sensationalist rant to get attention for some reason, maybe a new season of Shark Tank is starting.

Kevin O'Leary's bark is worse than his bite. He ran for Conservative Party leader here and basically proposed Red Tory policies.

High taxes can be a problem, but as he himself said in the CNN interview, the bigger problem are anti business development policies at the municipal level, places that take months to approve businesses and the like. Essentially anti business NIMBYism.

He was also commenting on CNN about people having the ability to work from anywhere, and those who have moved from San Francisco to low tax places like Montana. I think this is overhyped, though of course there is some truth to it. I think this is overhyped for two reasons:

1.There is a difference that most people don't seem to appreciate between stocks and flows. The stock is the total of something, the flow is the change in something over a given period of time. There has been a large increase in the flow of people who can work anywhere and some of them have moved, but as a percentage of the total stock of workers, it's still a fairly small percentage and isn't likely to grow anytime soon.

2.Many people also want to live in areas with good schools and other civic amenities, which often mean higher taxes than in really low tax areas. The key isn't necessarily low taxes but efficient government spending. That isn't anything new.

In terms of anti business NIMBYism not being just 'blue state' this is from 3 years ago, so maybe things have changed, but otherwise:

If the country's biggest cities have something in common outside of population, it's this: Few of them are particularly easy places to start a business.

A new report by Arizona State University confirms as much with an accounting of the time, costs and number of steps required to get a business off the ground. The findings were part of a broader analysis by the university on the ease of doing business in dozens of major North American cities dotting the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Little Rock, Arkansas, emerged from the study with the inglorious distinction as the most difficult city in the country to start a business, requiring entrepreneurs to complete at least 10 legal steps over 63 days on average to get a company off the ground. That timeline was roughly 50% longer than what it takes on average to start a business in San Francisco, which ranked second behind Little Rock as the most difficult city to start a business in America.

https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2019/10/09/open-for-business-the-easiest-and-toughest-cities.html

Of course, there are many other factors for where to set up and operate a business, and most of the worst in that ranking are in blue states, as that study shows.

[Yoda]

This is the same moron who said it's a good thing that 86 people have as much wealth as the bottom 50% of the world's population, yes? Yeh, I'm gonna take a pass on anything this dipsh**t has to say about politics.

[Bismarck]

Meh. He has a point but I’ve always found him to be not that intelligent.

[7,052,770]

Agree as long as Jackson gets an MLB and/or NFL team. Otherwise, stupid.

[Suburbia]

Why should I care what some random celebrity thinks about politics?

The man is not a random celebrity. He is a job creator and he employs people in Canada and America to work. He says he can't do business in New York because of the onerous taxes and fees.

He says the Yankees, Mets, Knicks, etc. should relocate and move to red states and leave NYC behind. He feels NYC is on the verge of being a ghosttown.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

AOC herself has a panel of levers and buttons that control everything conservatives hate. This is a well known fact. It sits next to her late term abortion machine.

also next to the button that makes gas price go up

Didn't the conservatives take away from her and gave it to Biden, because she wasn't using it enough?

[Yoda]

Why should I care what some random celebrity thinks about politics?

The man is not a random celebrity. He is a job creator and he employs people in Canada and America to work. He says he can't do business in New York because of the onerous taxes and fees.

He says the Yankees, Mets, Knicks, etc. should relocate and move to red states and leave NYC behind. He feels NYC is on the verge of being a ghosttown.

The very idea that the Yankees or the Mets could make any more money than they already do anywhere other than NYC is hilarious.

Conversely, the idea that the Knicks moving to any other city could make any difference in how much they suck is also funny.

[Suburbia]

Why should I care what some random celebrity thinks about politics?

The man is not a random celebrity. He is a job creator and he employs people in Canada and America to work. He says he can't do business in New York because of the onerous taxes and fees.

He says the Yankees, Mets, Knicks, etc. should relocate and move to red states and leave NYC behind. He feels NYC is on the verge of being a ghosttown.

The very idea that the Yankees or the Mets could make any more money than they already do anywhere other than NYC is hilarious.

Conversely, the idea that the Knicks moving to any other city could make any difference in how much they suck is also funny.

The Yankees would do well outside the Bronx, especially in Jersey or Florida, where a lot of their fans live.

[T'Chenka]

Why should I care what some random celebrity thinks about politics?

The man is not a random celebrity. He is a job creator and he employs people in Canada and America to work. He says he can't do business in New York because of the onerous taxes and fees.

He says the Yankees, Mets, Knicks, etc. should relocate and move to red states and leave NYC behind. He feels NYC is on the verge of being a ghosttown.

Most of the time that megarich people whine about how hard it is to make money, they're just whining that they aren't making as much profit as they would like to make, as fast as they would like to make it. Not to be confused with ACTUALLY not making a profit. Boo f__king hoo.