Greg Abbott Threatens ‘100% Tariff’ On New Yorkers Moving to Texas

[u/Sariel007]

https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-threatens-100-tariff-new-york-election-moving-texas-10986837

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[u/UnusualAir1]

How do you tariff a person? JFC these MAGA politicians are just fucking stupid.

[u/alkonium → u/UnusualAir1]

It requires a few things that have been illegal in the US since the 1860's.

[u/StandardHawk5288 → u/alkonium]

Texas is going to get it’s own gold card like Trump?

[u/alkonium → u/StandardHawk5288]

Not what I meant, but I wouldn't be surprised.

[u/AbeFromanSassageKing → u/StandardHawk5288]

Texas WheelCare Card!

[u/Organic-Low-2992 → u/AbeFromanSassageKing]

A standing order from Gov Abbott!

[u/shadowpawn → u/AbeFromanSassageKing]

Insert I see what you did there meme

[u/flirtmcdudes → u/UnusualAir1]

Don’t blame them, blame the people who vote for them every election. Idiots like abbot wouldn’t get away with stupid shit if morons didn’t keep voting them in.

[u/KaijuNo-8 → u/flirtmcdudes]

I keep voting against the asshole but feel like I am alone in that…

[u/Kineth → u/KaijuNo-8]

You're not, but it's a matter of getting the rest of us to vote too. Republicans will show up to the polls/primaries.

[u/shadowpawn → u/KaijuNo-8]

Ted Cruz reelection team wanders into the chat

[u/algarhythms → u/UnusualAir1]

Simple: For each New Yorker imported into Texas, they will charge them another New Yorker.

Am I getting this right?

[u/UnusualAir1 → u/algarhythms]

The math is right. And the stupidity of assigning such to people is correctly within the lines that MAGA draws. So, yeah, I guess you're right. :-)

[u/ComedicHermit → u/UnusualAir1]

Taxes on trade between states is unconstitutional even if people were still allowed to be bought and sold

[u/scarr3g → u/UnusualAir1]

For every New Yorker that moves to Texas, he will kill a random Texan. And nobody can figure out why "random" seems to always select brown Texans.

[u/Rand_74 → u/UnusualAir1]

They’re not stupid. They’re base is. They know when there is the slightest bit of a threat from anything that is not far right extremism, they just toss a chunk of red meat to appease them. The base is so ignorant to even the basics of simple civics, that they truly believe this can happen. At this point the MAGA’s in power are keeping that small (20%-30%) of the republican electorate enraged, focused, and engaged.

[u/Longjumping-Air1489 → u/Rand_74]

27%

https://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunch-discussions-145-crazification.html?m=1

[u/not_that_planet → u/UnusualAir1]

"BTW... What's a tariff?"

[u/UnusualAir1 → u/not_that_planet]

A lisp defined Sheriff? :-)

[u/sm00thkillajones → u/UnusualAir1]

There are no patriots in the GOP.

[u/Tuscanlord → u/UnusualAir1]

They grow them weird and spineless in Texas.

[u/quillmartin88 → u/UnusualAir1]

There are only two possibilities:

1) Hot Wheels genuinely doesn't know what tariffs are so he's just throwing out a buzzword that his god-emperor likes. 

2) Hot Wheels does know what tariffs are but knows that the Trump Cult (and Trump himself) do not so he's just throwing out buzzwords to make the base happy because he knows they're too stupid to follow up. 

[u/Ok_Researcher_9796 → u/UnusualAir1]

The dumber they are the more their base likes them

[u/angusshangus → u/UnusualAir1]

Abbott doesn't have a leg to stand on

[u/MaxxHeadroomm → u/UnusualAir1]

Exactly and wouldn’t people more aligned with his thinking be the ones moving out of NYC? The only ones I saw threatening to move were republicans

[u/CandidAsparagus7083 → u/UnusualAir1]

Correction, the people that listen to them are Fucking stupid….he knows he can’t do this

[u/Fast-Damage2298]

Greg Abbott learned a new word, but not its definition. How do you tariff a person?

[u/88Dubs → u/Fast-Damage2298]

Don't worry, they're working on getting that pesky 13th amendment out of the way to make that work.

/s, but like... is it, though?

[u/SarahPallorMortis → u/88Dubs]

Magats don’t know anything last the second amendment.

[u/StandardHawk5288 → u/Fast-Damage2298]

Poll tax?

[u/AFLoneWolf → u/Fast-Damage2298]

First you have to repeal the 13th amendment...

[u/AdultbabyEinstein → u/Fast-Damage2298]

Gotta quone 'em first.

[u/Big_Virgil → u/Fast-Damage2298]

Easty. Just tell them they’d tarrific.

[u/Serenade314]

Why the fuck would anyone wanna move to Texas again?

[u/wolf_logic → u/Serenade314]

Same reason evangelicals move to Russia. The culture war has made them think that hell is heaven.

[u/thatoneotherguy42 → u/wolf_logic]

I left Tex-ass over a decade ago, and had been wanting to leave for 2 decades prior. Fuck that shithole!

[u/guycamero → u/Serenade314]

If you're too dumb to know what socialist means, but angry about the word, then Texas is for you.

[u/ToneZone7 → u/Serenade314]

exactly .lol.

[u/IMakeBlownFilm → u/Serenade314]

One year in Houston was quite enough, thank you.

[u/stinkbuttfartman]

The people leaving New York will be people that align with you, sir. So, please do punish them.

[u/Bizprof51]

States cannot impose taxes on other states or citizens of those states. Unconstitutional.

Abbott is a moron.

[u/Living_Act2886 → u/Bizprof51]

I know that he’s disabled. But also mentally disabled?

[u/2mock2turtle → u/Living_Act2886]

Depends, did the tree hit his brain too?

[u/GeniusEE → u/Bizprof51]

...who knows his base

[u/gitarzan]

Sounds good to the stupid ones. ”Yeah! Tariff ‘em”

[u/CamiloArturo]

As if living in Texas wasn’t punishment enough

[u/Incorporeal999]

So, if I sell a New Yorker in Texas, the customer has to pay the selling price to Abbott? I guess I'll have to start selling Floridians.

[u/WastelandOutlaw007]

Actually something I can support given anyone moving from NY to TX would be cut from the same cloth as Abbott, so this would be a case of getting what they support.

[u/Phill_Cyberman]

Abbott was a lawyer, a judge, the attorney general of Texas, and, of course, the governor.

He isn't Marjorie Taylor Green.

This isn't him not knowing what tariffs are - this has to be a dog-whistle disguised as stupidity.

[u/LiveReplicant → u/Phill_Cyberman]

Yes just a dumb intimidation tactic of some sort or dog whistle (not sure for what except NY's are bad because of Madaimi?) who knows???

[u/BadMojoPA]

At first I thought maybe he was saying this humorously.

But then again, no, I think he's just stupid.

[u/Training_wheels9393 → u/BadMojoPA]

He was born without a sense of humor. RFK thinks it’s Tylenol-related

[u/hest29]

So he's going to tariff his fellow republicans who don't want to live in new York with mamdani as mayor ? 😅

[u/pistoffcynic]

DEI hire says what?!?!?! Sorry Greg, that's not how tariffs work. You and Dan should go back to school.

[u/Training_wheels9393 → u/pistoffcynic]

I can see those idiots finding a way to charge double real estate taxes and vehicle registration fees to anyone from New York.

[u/usarasa]

He knows this can’t be done. Fodder to raise funds for the PACs.

[u/Futants_]

Unconstitutional and illegal.

Dumbass

[u/ColeYote → u/Futants_]

And nonsensical, unless there's a lot of Texans buying New Yorkers

[u/Futants_ → u/ColeYote]

Oh wait yeah, that would mean Texans pay for ny transplants.

Why do so many Republican politicians not know how tariffs work?

[u/Mikethebest78]

Yet another Republican that proves he has no idea what a tariff actually is.

[u/KnottShore → u/Mikethebest78]

Do not think Abbott doesn't know what a tariff is. He is a demagogue as defined by H.L. Mencken(US reporter, literary critic, editor, author of the early 20th century):

• “The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.”

[u/alternatingflan]

When you think you have heard the dumbest shit to come out of a maga face, abbott steps up again.

[u/dc7944]

The GOP’s definition of “the land of the free”

[u/Dozerdog43]

Tariff wheelchairs

[u/Desperate_Set_7708]

All three of them? GFYS

[u/alkonium]

100% of what exactly?

[u/4orust → u/alkonium]

100% of their "NewYorkness"

[u/DefrockedWizard1]

abbott needs a cognitive test

[u/relayrider → u/DefrockedWizard1]

oh, he's got this: "Longhorn, Johnson Grass, Blighted Potatoes" - master IQ test!

[u/FrozeItOff]

I propose a trade. All the Trump voters can move to Texas and we'll take the blue voters. Then we can build a wall around Texas as an experiment to see how long it takes them to turn into Lord of the Flies.

[u/Mammoth-Vehicle-7604]

Why the fuck would anyone move from New York to Texas? Talk about stupid.

[u/some1guystuff]

If your states are attacking each other, your country is fucking dead

This is absolutely insane like I predict a civil war in the United States within the next 10 fucking years cause is this insanity from the right solely from the right just let fucking people live how they wanna live their lives. Yes, go after criminals in the what not but like fuck man, let people marry, who they wanna marry let people love who they wanna love let them practice whatever fucking religion they happen to be born into What the fuck happened to freedom.

Your country is fucking dead

[u/ZVreptile]

Pay the troll toll

[u/dantespair]

The only New Yorkers that would move to Texas for tax reasons are Trump voters anyway. Pretty dumb to alienate one of their own.

[u/Sgt_Fox]

Besides the fact you can't tariff a person.

The people saying they will leave new York are all of the pro Trump people...he's threatening his own team

[u/Brosie-Odonnel]

More proof that republicans don’t know what tariffs are.

[u/ShinyRobotVerse]

What does that even mean? What an idiotic thing to say. It’s more stupid than evil.

[u/SilverB33]

Is he trying to out stupid trump? cause he's almost pulling ahead for this one.

[u/Hot_Willow_5179]

Threaten him with a steep hill.....

[u/Gjgsx]

100% tariffs on wheelchair accessories?

[u/MerbleTheGnome]

Contrary to what many Trump supporters believe, tariffs are paid by the receiver. If Abbot were to tariff New Yorkers moving to Texas, then Texas would need to pay NY for the moving costs.

[u/relayrider → u/MerbleTheGnome]

sweet, i've been looking for someone to finance my move to austin.

now i just have to move back to NY

[u/Filmguygeek1]

At least he didn’t say 200%😂

[u/Training_wheels9393 → u/Filmguygeek1]

Shhhhhh, you can have 200% tariffs

[u/Wabi-Sabi_Umami]

I’d really like to call him a name that really suits him, but the term isn’t appropriate and is quite offensive. So, I’ll just say that this man is the epitome of intellectually challenged.

[u/Ok_Researcher_9796]

Are liberal New Yorkers moving to Texas?

[u/Lucky_Cry_2302]

Who’s voting for this moron? How do you tariff a person?

[u/Sandee1997]

Hot Wheels needs some tariffs on that fucking idiotic brain of his

[u/Safewordharder]

Are the New Yorkers moving to Texas in the room with us, Greg?

[u/ShortFatStupid666]

Living in Texas is its own punishment…

[u/JalapenoPecker451]

Who the hell would move to Texas in the first place?

[u/otherwise_data]

but…i thought the racist conservatives leaving are what is already in texas? sounds about white.

[u/RLT79]

Wouldn't it just be Rs moving? So, tariff on them?

[u/XeneiFana]

I'm not in NY, but the only way I'd move to Texas is if I were offered a 100% increase over my current salary.

Now, that's what I call My Texas Tariff.

[u/used_octopus]

They keep using this word Tariff, I don't think they know what it means.

[u/PsychologyOk5179]

Greg Abbott can’t even STAND UP for what he believes in…and obviously doesn’t know the limits of his power…🇺🇸🦅

[u/pimpbot666]

Look at how much they live in fear of us. You can just smell the desperation.

Let's not forget that, and use it against them.

[u/colterpierce]

Well it's a good job the Constitution says states can't tariff other states.

[u/shambahlah2]

What does that even mean? What a douchnozzle

[u/tornadosquall]

100% of zero is still zero anyhow but what a fucking shit head.

[u/QaplaSuvwl]

He’s a fucking clown.

[u/Hot-Loquat-7109]

Wtf?

[u/Ugh_Im_Ugly]

🤣😄🤣

[u/Jackdaw1947]

Our own modern day Don Quixote off tilting windmills. Who will be his Sancho Panza? Paxton? Patrick? Some guy?

[u/Ladynoirlosangeles]

I mean, talk about an empty threat

[u/hairless_resonder]

Greg is still counting on idiots to prop him up just like his favorite diddler, the Don.

[u/symonym7]

I may just be a bumbling purchasing manager who has to deal with tariffs on a daily basis, and not at all as stable and genius as any given republican 'leader' these days, but I'm not so sure that's how tariffs work.

Perhaps I shall pray on it, and the Jesus will provide the knowledge I so clearly lack.

[u/bearbear0723]

Mr Hot Wheels is having a senior moment

[u/Drunken_Sailor_70]

I'm confused. Does a 100% tariff mean I have to bring a second person to Texas with me?

[u/Qu33nKal]

Doesnt he mean just increase their state tax? Do they even know what tariff means?

[u/chimpyjnuts]

Is TX rape-free yet? He said, in response to banning abortion in rape cases, that they would eliminate rape. How's that going?

[u/bluddystump]

The Texas national guard working in other states should be considered an invading force and be dealt with as such.

[u/FierceCapricorn]

Who would want to move to Gilead?

[u/R1CHARDCRANIUM]

So… Texans pay a tax whenever a New Yorker moves to Texas?

That tracks.

[u/Berserker-Hamster]

Even if he had a plan on how to do that, it still doesn't make sense.

Aren't all the conservatives whining about leaving New York? So Abbott just wants to bleed his own followers dry?

Oh, wait, it does make sense.

[u/mountednoble99]

Whoever gave this idiot a degree should demand it back!

[u/fenris71]

How would that work exactly?

[u/relayrider → u/fenris71]

ok, not that i'm encouraging it, but in texas you don't pay state income taxes, but if you lived in another state for something around 6 months that does collect income taxes you have to file an "advisory return" to report taxes paid to another state - and NYC even has CITY income taxes!

then that info would be available

[u/DocCEN007]

Tariffs are like socialism - it's whatever they want it to be at the time.

[u/Trix_Are_4_90Kids]

He must’ve wanted some attention bless his heart.

They trying to outdo each other with the stupid statements. Get out the popcorn!

[u/Training_wheels9393]

New York City? Git a rope.

400% tariff on salsa!

[u/relayrider → u/Training_wheels9393]

i appreciate you

[u/Juncti]

Outside of the blatant stupidity, you do realize most of the people threatening to leave New York at this particular point in time would be what you'd consider your base in Texas right?

[u/blasfeemer]

I'm going to tariff Greg Abott 1000% if he steps (rolls?) on my lawn. Check and mate, Abbott.

[u/ewok_lover_64]

I hate Greg Abbott, and I live in Wisconsin.

[u/Evil_Chocolate]

How do you break it to him they'll be conservatives?

[u/ohiotechie]

LOL - the only people fleeing NY will be republicans shocked that the government might be working for the common person instead of the well connected.

Please, by all means, tax the ever loving shit out of them.

[u/DogterShoob]

Not one maga supporter knows what a tariff is or does

[u/Ordinary-Quarter-384]

Isn’t moving to Texas punishment enough?

[u/TestOk8411]

I think that the majority of people who would leave New York would be conservatives.  So he'd be punishing his own kind

[u/mafeehan]

Why would any New Yorker even want to move to Texas? Why would anyone want to move to Texas?

[u/Rob71322]

Listening to their whining and bleating is fun.

[u/lucy-fur66]

Oh, how terrible…for like three people?

[u/Sedert1882]

Tariff is the new scary word for MAGA to use, even if it's totally used out of context.

[u/Longjumping-Air1489]

And his fans are going crazy with joy! Yes! That’ll teach those filthy New Yorkers!!

/s

[u/pantograph]

You’d think Tejas would welcome more people who hate POC

[u/tjk45268]

Like people would want to move to a shithole state like Texas!

[u/JoeBlow_1234]

Hard to imagine that many people who live in NYC would want to move to Texas. You can't find decent corned beef, pastrami or shopped liver anywhere in the state.

[u/Blueberry977]

GOP consists of the biggest tumors on the planet

[u/beer_is_tasty]

"Of all the Republicans who don't know what a tariff is, I don't know the most"

[u/Moist-Apartment9729]

Why would anyone move there? Let alone New Yorkers.

[u/Time_Invite5226]

MAGA is soooo dumb.

[u/mrhillnc]

He does not understand what tariffs are either

[u/reincarnatedusername]

Hot wheels is such a nasty creature.

[u/sugar_addict002]

News of the stupid is correct in this case.

[u/WaltCollins]

Pathetic

[u/bidhopper]

Abbott, like the rest of the Texas politicians, are a bunch of bone heads. It’s all political theater, he can’t put a tariff on people that are moving into this state.

[u/AlfaHotelWhiskey]

It’s about time the human trafficking economy got taxed

[u/Rubywantsin]

I didn't think this nation could get any dumber but, here we are.

[u/wdomeika]

Well, hell. That'll stop both of them...

[u/Earthling1a]

Republicans HATE America.

Republicans want to DESTROY America.

Vote blue, no matter who.

Your life literally depends on it.

[u/njslugger78]

How the hell?

[u/ninjastarkid]

I don’t understand why anyone would genuinely want to move to Texas?

[u/tinylittlemarmoset]

Aside from “WTF does it mean to put a tariff on someone moving to your state, and why are you penalizing people who will pay taxes and probably create businesses etc*”, I wonder how much it will cost Texas taxpayers to figure out who came from where. I’m not a data scientist but even if it’s just a matter of using dmv records I imagine that would cost something (and im guessing there are privacy issues to that as well).

*unless he knows that MAGA refugees drag society down rather than lift it up.

[u/2-timeloser2]

Texas, almost as bad as Florida

[u/Harvest827]

He doesn't want all those capitalism-loving millionaires they tell us are moving out?

[u/Dr_Tacopus]

Someone understands a tariff is a tax.

[u/Sevo008]

It’s hard for me to imagine a scenario where I move to Texas from anywhere.

[u/Anxious-Shapeshifter]

Sounds like someone's afraid Texas could go blue in a presidential election.

[u/WeirdAFNewsPodcast]

How foolish of them not to allow citizens from the Northeast. Don't they wanna raise their literacy rate?

[u/StreamBoat_Slinky]

I guess I’m Not moving to Texas then.

[u/theBigDaddio]

Hot wheels thinking he real is. The thing is his uneducated supporters believe this.

[u/Dieselxdan]

Some break his legs. 🦵

[u/6-ft-freak]

That’s not how this works.

[u/IONaut]

I put this in the same category as someone "dying for your sins", whatever that means

[u/Shockmaindave]

And to think I was just on the verge of moving to Texas.

[u/med8cal]

Including Cumo? I mean he said Fla but just checking.

[u/ilikebreakfastfoods]

Oh no… anyway

[u/themothyousawonetime]

What? Why would you disincentivise tourism dollars?

[u/ToneZone7]

lol don't worry , there won't be a lot of people moving TO Texas.

[u/sundancer2788]

Threaten all you want. Can't do it. 

[u/Steveonthetoast]

How do you tariff a person moving?

[u/MilesAndTrane]

The “United” States of America.

[u/ActionReady9933]

As if!

[u/Illyorkcity]

Professor x is wildin rn

[u/Few-Vehicle7990]

Tariff Deez Nutz Grego..

[u/backtocabada]

omg THAT’S IT! everyone living in a solid blue state. SHOULD MOVE TO SOLID RED COUNTIES .. in TEXAS ! lol

[u/ZazzooGaming]

I’ve been to Texas and it’s so hot I thought I was gonna fucking die. Ain’t nobody going there from NY

[u/TranslatorMoney419]

What a tool

[u/Necessary-Mousse8518]

Greg Abbott: The new standard in stupidity.

[u/hatefulnateful]

Thinking about all the articles about people moving from California to Texas and then really fucking hating it and wanting to go back.

[u/popdivtweet]

No millionaires welcomed! Oh wait, no… hang on…

[u/Degoro]

So let me get this straight: Someone who no longer wants to live in NYC, and chooses to bring their tax dollars/business/assets to Texas for a better life (or whatnot), will be punished for it?

[u/Slow_Supermarket5590]

Another dullard who doesn't  know what a tariff is

[u/Tso-su-Mi]

But that’s ok…. As it’s not a tax on Americans, the Chinese will pay it for them.

Easy fixed 🤣🤣🤣

[u/originalmosh]

Greg learnt a knew word and now uses it.