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RUSH: Last night on Fox News. As you know, before the end of last week, David Paterson, the governor of New York, in announcing his new millionaires tax — which will hit people at $300,000 a year and up — was asked what he thought of my announcement that I\u2019m leaving, finally. This is the tipping point. I\u2019m getting out of there. He said, ‘If I had known that my tax increase would have gotten rid of Limbaugh, I would have raised taxes sooner.\u2019 Neil Cavuto decided to do his commentary that closes his show on the Fox News Channel yesterday afternoon about this. Here\u2019s the first of two of those sound bites.<\/p>\n

CAVUTO: Rush Limbaugh to New York: Drop dead, I\u2019m leaving. New York to Rush: Don\u2019t let the screen door hit you on the way out. And with that, New York governor David Paterson laughed off the millionaire packing up and heading out. Paterson even found it funny. ‘If I knew that would be the result,\u2019 he said of Rush\u2019s leaving, ‘I would have thought about the taxes earlier.\u2019 Everyone laughed. Why? Because this isn\u2019t about a broadcaster named Rush, but a tax hiking rage from which politicians seem in such a rush. The governor is free to laugh off Rush bolting from a fancy Fifth Avenue penthouse condominium. Clearly the gov is not a fan of Rush. But I suspect he is a fan of Rush\u2019s money. He\u2019s going to need it, and now he won\u2019t have it — and if other rich guys join Rush, guys like Donald Trump, he won\u2019t have a lot of it, or them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And here\u2019s how it concluded…<\/p>\n

CAVUTO: What will become of the governor\u2019s millionaires tax for which 300 grand is enough to qualify? If you can\u2019t stick it to the rich who are bolting, how much lower on the financial food chain are you going to have to be moving? Because you better move fast, Governor. I suspect what happened with Rush won\u2019t stay with Rush, but the governor chooses not to pick a fight with Donald, just Rush. Even though others will be wandering, who have nowhere near the money of Rush. But Governor Paterson, you don\u2019t see that. You just see Rush, and you want the always compliant media to just see Rush, and only Rush — and then laugh at Rush and their hatred of Rush and their love of anything hated by Rush. If only they\u2019d stop rushing to conclusions, because this isn\u2019t about a broadcaster who could easily afford to keep a pad here, but won\u2019t. But many who barely could and are wondering now if they will. If they followed Rush, it won\u2019t be funny, governor. For you and your state it won\u2019t be funny at all. Sad, yes. Funny, no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, earlier in the program, Cavuto had as his guest Donald Trump, who also has said he\u2019s thinking about leaving. That was in the New York Post yesterday. Trump called Paterson and said, ‘You know, it\u2019s ridiculous I have to pay New York taxes on money I don\u2019t earn here,\u2019 and this is the opposite of what happens to me. (laughing) I pay taxes only when I am there, but it\u2019s not just that, it\u2019s the… What is it now? Twelve years of being audited every year. The legal fees, the accountant fees. Each audit takes six to nine months, for 15 to 20 days a year! It\u2019s just pure harassment. The tax increase, the proposed tax increase is just a tipping point. It\u2019s an omen: ‘Get out! It\u2019s only going to get worse.\u2019 Trump says he called Paterson and said he does a lot of work out in LA with his TV show. ‘I don\u2019t think I should have to pay taxes on money I don\u2019t earn in New York,\u2019 and that\u2019s essentially what New York is trying to do to him. So Cavuto had him on, and they talked about this whole thing — and Cavuto\u2019s question to Trump was, ‘If tax increases are in, is Donald Trump out?\u2019<\/p>\n

TRUMP: Well, I guess you have no choice. The fact is that the state of New York did something very, very foolish and they passed a tax, an income tax, and increased it very substantially from what it was, and I believe that\u2019s going to be a total disaster for the state.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So Cavuto then said, ‘Well, that was the argument Rush Limbaugh made, as you know. He has, I think, some Fifth Avenue penthouse. He\u2019s looking. ‘I\u2019m not in the city that often but when the taxes are going up everywhere they are, I certainly don\u2019t want to encourage the city.\u2019 So he\u2019s out, too.\u2019<\/p>\n

TRUMP: Rush is one example and he\u2019s a great example but yet many, many people in the same situation, and they\u2019ll just say, you know, ‘Thank you very much. Let\u2019s sell our apartment and let\u2019s get the hell out.\u2019 A huge percentage of New York City taxes come from the people that will be fleeing New York, and you just can\u2019t do it. It\u2019s a horrible thing. I\u2019ve spoken to literally 25 to 30 people that are now either leaving or going to consider leaving. It is a foolish — and, in fact, very stupid — thing they are doing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Have you seen Paterson\u2019s approval numbers? Twenty-six percent. I have higher approval numbers than Paterson does. Paterson, only 26% of the American people think he should be elected. He\u2019s not even elected! In the words of Democrats, he\u2019s ‘illegitimate.\u2019 He has not been elected governor. He\u2019s going to run for election for the first time in 2010 and his approval numbers are at 26%. The Democrats in the state are saying, ‘If you don\u2019t get those numbers up, you\u2019re not going to be our candidate. We\u2019re going to get rid of you. We\u2019re going to broom you.\u2019<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Brad in Atlanta. It\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Mega dittos. Question. Going back to Cavuto yesterday —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — it was pointed out that Trump was a big supporter of Obama. My question is: Why are all these I guess people with such business acumen, why are they such supporters of Obama?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t know about Trump and Obama, but the conversation he had yesterday with Neil Cavuto was about the governor of New York who will raise taxes on ‘millionaires.\u2019 They defined them as millionaire taxes, and defined ‘millionaires\u2019 as anybody who makes over 300 grand in New York, and Trump was simply talking about people in New York, 40 or 50,000 of them, that pay over half the bills for the city to operate, and they might start leaving. I think the support for Obama in a lot of cases was a lot of people choosing the path of least resistance. It was easier to support Obama than to oppose him. You got more accolades. You got treated better. You were thought of to be nicer and more enlightened if you supported Obama publicly, than if you opposed him. Hell even the people on our side who opposed him didn\u2019t want to say they opposed him!<\/p>\n

CALLER: But Trump isn\u2019t really one to care what other people think.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no. I think it\u2019s just the opposite. I think Donald cares a lot what people think. I mean, he gets anywhere from half million to a million telling people how to make money. He cares very much that people think he knows how to do it. He cares very much that people be aware of his achievements. He\u2019s… I think a lot of people who are as in public profile as Trump have a very big concern. It\u2019s a publicly traded company. Well, doesn\u2019t run it much anymore, but he has had a publicly traded company; you\u2019ve gotta be concerned about what people think. That\u2019s a luxury that few people really have. I am one who really… (laughing) I don\u2019t care a rat\u2019s rear end what people think of me, and it is amazingly free. It is amazingly liberating, but it\u2019s not the easiest thing in the world to master. Most people haven\u2019t mastered it. Most people care. Most people care desperately what they\u2019re thought of. Now, as far as Trump supporting Obama, I can tell you this. Trump was not bashful about saying this. He hated Bush. He thought Bush was the worst president ever, and he was out there saying this, long before the \u201908 campaign came around. He thought Bush was a disaster, with all the government spending and the entitlements and so forth. He made no bones about that. So it was perfectly natural that he would support what he would think to be the opposite, which would be Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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