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Where to start?Tax “evasion” is a crime. Tax “avoidance” is a tactic practiced by everyone who files itemized tax returns or who contributes to a tax-deferred savings plan. Do you, for example, participate in a 401(k) or IRA? If you own your home, do you deduct property taxes and mortgage interest? There is nothing to stop you from foregoing your deductions or taking a taxable distribution from your tax-deferred savings plan.CA and NY taxpayers cannot avoid State taxes merely by moving to another State. They must get their incomes from those other States as well. Someone who works in NYC but lives in NJ must first pay New York taxes which are then credited on the NJ filing.Many professional athletes reside in States without an income tax. Several members of the New York Yankees reside in Florida. They pay NY taxes on salaries earned during home games but not on games played in other States or on endorsement income.Retirees who worked in high-tax States often retire to States without income taxes (including FL and TX). In this fashion, their pensions are not subject to State income tax.The tax code is complicated. Tax payers who own rental property use the depreciation provisions to reduce their taxes. When the property is sold, tax is paid on the amounts previously taken as depreciation at capital gains rates. CA owners can utilize a so-called 1031 exchange to sell investment real estate in CA and buy “like kind” real estate in another State but without incurring CA capital gains tax. Taxpayers with long range plans can do this multiple times until the property passes into the owner’s estate without ever paying capital gains tax.NY is experiencing an alarming rise in violent crime including murder. Both NY and CA have encouraged a growing homelessness problem. Jails are used to house those who were formerly patients in psychiatric hospitals. This is not my idea of “socially just.”Already, a very small fraction of taxpayers are paying a very large share of State and local taxes. As taxpayers decamp to other States, the budgets are taking a beating. NY reported that it will have a deficit of $59 billion through 2022 (WSJ 10/21/2020, p.a2). Covid19 has exacerbated this problem but it has been building for several years.High income taxpayers have had enough. They might be willing to fund good schools, well staffed police forces and functional infrastructure. They are becoming increasingly unwilling to fund local governments that are committed to endless crusades against “climate change,” ever more generous union pensions and misguided tolerance of violent and destructive riots. Gov. Cuomo of NY said a few years ago that Republicans were “unwelcome”’in his State. Many have taken his advice and moved themselves - and their tax money - elsewhere.A few years ago, NJ tried to tax pensions paid to retirees who lived elsewhere (especially FL). Apparently, 9% income tax, 3% property tax, 6.625% sales tax, taxes on casino gambling and a lucrative lottery was not enough. Federal courts nixed NJ’s plan.No, NY and CA cannot sue States that “harbor” their tax refugees. And no, NY and CA can make no special claim to be “socially just.”Note added in proof (10/23/20): NJ plans to collect income taxes from Wall Street employees who are now working from home in NJ.N.J. could grab hundreds of millions in N.Y. income taxes paid by NYC employees now working at home in Jersey

Others have offered apologies for an incompetent who will go down as the worst president in U.S. history.As usual with Trump supporters, there is always the resort to “what-about-_________” (fill in the blank).Let’s look at some real Trump facts.during the campaign he criticized Obama’s golfing and promised not to golf because he would be too busy working for Americanswithin his first year in office he had golfed more than Obama had in eight years in officeeach golf trip cost the American taxpayer $3.4 millioNa substantial portion of the cost of each trip went to entourage expenses at the a Trump-owned resortimposed tariffs on Chinese goods and told the American people China would pay those tariffsin fact, those tariffs, totalling $4.3 billion per month, are only paid by the American people and rippled through the American economy by increasing product costs and increasing state sales tax revenuesChinese retaliation resulted in the loss of sales of billions of dollars in American agricultural productretaliation resulted in thousands of American farm bankruptciesimposed tariffs on imported steel and aluminumresulted in American manufacturers moving out of the United States (Harley Davidson, Carrier, etc.)claimed that new steel plants were going to open or be reopened which never happenedtariffs increased cost of aluminum and steel products in the U.S.claimed that the North American Free Trade Agreement was “the worst deal in history” and resulted in trade deficits with Canadahad never read the agreementU.S. Trade Representative’s Office’s own data showed that the U.S. had a trade surplus with Canadatrade experts agree the renegotiated agreement resulted in a few minor amendmentsclaimed bad economy during the Obama administrationin fact the economy from 2008 to 2016 set record growth that continued into 2016Trump claimed new economic records which were really the result of growth from the Obama administrationgrowth under Obama began to slow under Trumpby the end of 2017, the economy data was back where it had began in Januarytax cuts2017 tax cut benefited the richtax cuts used to finance substantial corporate share buy-back programsprior to the 2018 midterms, Trump promised middle class tax cut - never implementedpromised repeal and replacement of Obamacare with better, less expensive programno actiontaking steps in the courts and Congress to attempt to gut Obamacare without replacement provisionsaction on gun control2016 June 12 — Orlando, FL — 49 dead2017 October 1 — Las Vegas, NV — 59 dead2018 February 14 — Parkland, FL — 17 deadoutlawed bump-stocksdespite promising action; nothing happened after NRA meetingLet’s have a look at his foreign policy accomplishments:promised denuclearization of North Koreatwo very high profile meeting - results: DPRK tests continue, no actionpulled out of the multi-party “worst deal in history” restricting Iran’s nuclear development programother countries in the agreement strongly discourage withdrawal saying agreement was workingU.S. withdrew and reimposed sanctions allowing Iran to continue development without restrictionswithdrew from the Paris climate accordreintroduced coal usewithdrew from the Trans Pacific Partnership opening the way for increased Chinese influencepledged to produce a Middle East peace agreementJared Kushner produce a proposal reject by all partiesdeclined to impose Russian sanctions resulting from Russia’s action in Crimea and Ukrainesanctions finally implemented when forced by Congressmet alone with Vladimir Putin – no staff or translatorsconsistently rejected U.S. intelligence community assessment of Russian intentionsdoes not read President’s Daily Intelligence BriefMake America Great Againlaughed at by delegates at the United Nations General Assemblyheavily criticized by NATO members when he claimed NATO members were not meeting financial commitments to the organization (NATO members do not financially contribute to SHAPE.U.S. News study rates U.S. number 16 for quality of life, just ahead of Russia and ChinaForbes ranks U.S. 36, tied with the Philippines, for integritydeclined to attend French military remembrance services because of rainstaged farcical July 4 event in Washington after District of Columbia bans armoured vehicles because of damage to roadsPromises Made, Promises Kept” (None kept)promised to release tax returns “once their audit is completedcurrently before the courts attempting to block release of his tax returnsreturns never “under audit”promised to have Mexico pay for a border wallMexico rejected Trump demandCongress refused to fund constructionTrump currently raiding Defense Department accounts, including funds for military housingMueller Investigation34 people and three companies indictedeight pleaded guilty to or have been convicted of felonies, including five Trump associates and campaign officials (balance of people indicted are foreign nationals)Trump — two unindicted incidents of obstruction of justice (no indictments issued because of Department of Justice policy of not indicting a sitting president)most profitable investigation in justice department historyThese are highlights. Are they the hallmarks of a great president?

Between 1996 and 2009, I lived in the Bay area three times. In 2009, we moved back to the panhandle of Florida for the last time.The first time I lived in the Bay area was in 1996-98. I lived in hotels and a tiny apartment in Palo Alto. I worked as a management consultant for Accenture and traveled back home every weekend or two. I got to know a lot of people and was exposed to the startup world for the first time. Exciting.The second time, in 1999, I moved my family to Mountain View. We lived in a 2BR condo near a busy street. It cost 2X as much as the 5BR house we had in FL.I left my consulting job to join a young software company that really took off during the Y2K boom. We were building and selling eCommerce software as fast as it could be written. It was a 24x7 grueling job, similar to the startup grind in the Valley.During this period (1999-2001), I didn't do much except work. But my wife made good friends with a few other families who had also recently moved there to 'go for the gold'. My wife and I used to joke that Silicon Valley was just 'Hollywood for geeks'. In a lot of ways, it really is. Just replace 'actors' with 'programmers', and substitute 'VC' for 'producer''.Luckily, our company was acquired for $9 billion on the day the Nasdaq last peaked (talk about luck!). I made a ton of money on stock options. Enough to retire on.Whoo-hoo!So, we moved back home to Florida with dreams of boating and raising our children in a small beach town, which is how I grew up.But I got bored. And two hurricanes slammed our small community. We lost our home and our elementary school for a while.Then, my old boss from CA called and made me an offer I couldn't refuse.My third gig in Silicon Valley was during 2006-2009. I took a job to build a new online business for a public company.So, we packed up the truck and moved to Los Altos... Hills, that is.We lived in a 7,000 sq ft Los Altos Hills mansion that was 3 miles from work. We rented it for less than the property tax payment. But that was during a bust cycle...On the surface, everything about my life looked like the storybook ending of a successful Silicon Valley career:I had an awesome job building a new business with people I respected and thoroughly enjoyed working with. We built a fantastic business. Our office was on the corner of El Camino and Castro Street.My kids went to Covington Elementary, one of the best in the state.I made $600,000 a year, with much larger performance bonuses looming over the next few years.Some of our best friends and colleagues to this day still live in the Valley.We took lots of weekend trips to Tahoe, Napa, Los Angeles, Hawaii...But...Real life - and a desire to raise our children in a healthier environment - prompted us to walk away from our perfect life for a less exciting (and more satisfying) life in the panhandle of Florida.Some of the reasons we left CA include the challenges many parents face living in the Valley:CA schools are terrible; even though our kids went to one of the best public schools in CA, by our estimates they lost over a year's worth of science and math education. We realized this pretty quickly after we moved there; later, when we moved back, both of our straight-A kids struggled to catch back up to their FL public school peers.strange social norms: my wife and I were raised in the South, where weekends are for family gatherings and house parties - events where work isn't discussed; instead, family, food and football dominate our time. In CA, though, pretty much everyone works HARD, so the only thing people seem to talk about is work, work, work. Every party was a networking opportunity. Few people slowed down enough to get to know each other as human beings. A lot of people were trying to become someone else. And way too many people are trying to prove how smart or how powerful they are. I'm not the most social person in the world, but this made me avoid social gatherings at all costs.disfunctional families: I've lived in a lot of places, and CA tops the list for bad parenting behavior. In all fairness, a lot of it is probably caused by the need for both parents to work all the time. As a result, many of our kids' best friends were being raised by nannies or simply left alone at home until dinner, or later. Some parents left their kids with nannies to take weekend trips. Like, once or twice a month. Let's just say that this type of parenting may not produce warm, loving and trusting human beings.taxes: I know I sound like a 1% brat saying this, but CA taxes are really high. When I added up the sales tax, property tax, income tax and special CA-only surplus taxes, I was giving about half of our gross income to the fine State of CA and to the US government. Florida taxes are far less, partly because you need much less $ to live on, so your income tax brackets are more favorable.cost of housing: we lucked out and snagged an awesome rental home at a good price, but to stay in the same school district, we were looking at buying a $2-3 million home. For a larger home in a better school district in FL, you're talking $600k.I was also motivated to return to FL for family reasons.My brother, who also lives in FL, took a new job in Africa. As a result, my aging mother was left without local family support. This was the straw that broke the camel's back, for me.But the tension of living in CA was already there. My wife and I were already questioning if we wanted to raise our children in Silicon Valley.Moving back to the panhandle of Florida was certainly a bad financial decision for us - in hindsight, I walked away from millions.Yet, I still feel great about our decision. Hard to really know, but I believe that my family is happier and healthier today than they would have been, living in 'Daddy's playground'. I certainly know my kids much better now than I would have, had we stayed.Today, I only miss four things about Silicon Valley:the professional spirit and the can-do attitude of the business community. It's a magnificent place to build something new. I miss working with so many brilliant, hard charging people.the summer weather (FL is brutal)the diversity of people, food and culture; Florida is pretty diverse, but the restaurant & cultural scene in San Francisco is second to none.my friends, several of whom continue to flourish as winning entrepreneurs (while I watch from afar... sniff)I do NOT miss the money.This weekend, I am looking forward to spending lazy hours with my family and friends, celebrating my son's high school graduation and talking about food, family and boating ('cause there's no football on right now).And no one will talk about work ;-)