Greg Abbott droht New Yorkern, die nach Texas ziehen, mit „100-prozentigem Zoll“.

I despise him so much, ugh. Anyway, c/p follows:

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said he would „impose a 100 percent tariff“ on New Yorkers moving to Texas.

“After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC,” the Republican wrote on X on Monday night.
Abbott’s post came on the eve of New York City’s mayoral election, in which democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani is the frontrunner.

Tariffs are taxes on goods, not people, and state governors are not permitted to levy taxes on imports from other states, let alone people. Furthermore, the Supreme Court has recognized that the constitutional right to travel includes the right to enter and leave another state freely and to become a permanent resident of another state.

But Abbott’s comment appears to tap into concerns that a wave of New Yorkers who don’t support Mamdani could flee to Texas if he is elected the mayor of the nation’s largest city.

Mamdani triumphed over former New York Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary in June. He faces Cuomo, who is running as an independent, and Republican Curtis Sliwa. 

Mamdani has promised to raise taxes on the richest New Yorkers and use the money to make city buses free and provide free, universal child care. He has also promised to freeze rent for people living in about 1 million rent-regulated apartments.

President Donald Trump has called Mamdani a “communist” and suggested federal funding cuts to the city if he is elected.

Mamdani would be the city’s first Muslim and Indian American mayor if elected.

Two things – first, he can’t do that.

Second – isn’t he threatening New York Republicans? Who else wants to move to Texas?

Imagine for a moment how much better the country would be if we gave Tx back to Mexico.

Yeah, tax the shit out of the two rich conservatives moving from manhattan to fucking dallas. The Texas stock exchange up yet?

I can’t even imagine being from New York and wanting to move to Texas.

I was hoping the article would clear up what a „100% tariff on New Yorkers“ means.

Evidently, Republicans just do not understand what a „tariff“ is and like throwing the word around.

These statements don’t even make sense, how tf do you put a tariff on people? All he’s doing is trying to get MAGAt support by using the words „tariff“ and „New York“ together, he knows the Trumpets are too damn stupid to realize what he’s saying isn’t even possible.

Since the only people moving out because of the election results would be rabidly racist republicans, you would think Abbot would welcome them. After all, he bent over for Elon.

Why does the gop always sound like internet trolls? This is so 14 year old meme bro territory. What an embarrassment.

that doesn’t even make sense. does he have wheels for brains too?

So, he’d impose a bigger tax on these people who are supposedly going to be leaving NYC because of…Mamdani’s taxes? Great logic, Greg. This is why the big brains hang out in the GOP.

This is how a leader sounds when he sneers at the idiocy of his own base.

Abbott knows what a tariff is, but he thinks so little of his supporters that he throws out nonsense like this. Is he right?

These fucking morons just use words without having any idea what they mean. This is what happens when you have one of richest but stupidest countries in the world.

Governor Hot Rod doesn’t understand the concept of tariffs, does he?

100% tariff on…what?

And who would this punish? Certainly not New Yorkers who are happy with their votes.