SF wants to force stores to stay open
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I wonder if this would trigger a wave of closures just before the law comes into effect. Businesses who are evaluating whether to leave or not might get pushed over the edge. GTFO while you still can and all that.
NYC didn't let Rossman go easily. They were still auditing and fining him over a year after he left.
After Rush Limbaugh moved his show from New York to Florida, New York audited him every year until he died to make him prove he's no longer running business operations in New York. He wasn't doing it, and they had no evidence of any kind that he was doing it; yet the onus was on Rush to prove he wasn't doing it.
Life lesson: If you live in a blue state and you're highly effective at speaking truth to power, expect consequences...and if you live in D.C., expect serious consequences.
You don't even have to effective against them. You just need to have been a high taxpayer that used to reside full-time in the city and still maintain some connection.
People who moved out of state but kept in state residence for part time living will get constantly audited. A friend of mines father used to live in NYC, moved to Florida, but kept a residence in NYC for visiting family. He purposely makes sure to use his credit in Florida at least once a day to show proof every year when NYC claims he still lives there more than half the year.
Anyone who was considering the idea beforehand will almost certainly do it now. Nothing like commitment to make anyone back out of a semicomfortable situation.
I'd try to get out well before then, if I owned the place. The land value, or the lease-sublet-until-lease-comes-due value, will crash and burn hard if the communists institute authoritarian command economy measures. Wait too long, and it will become more and more costly to get out.
NYC banks already "extend-and-pretend" their commercial loans to prevent them from holding a bag on their shitty vacant properties full of crime. I can see San Fran doing the same.
The government seems oblivious to the law of unintended consequences.
Big Govt™doesn't care about the consequences because those consequences only affect the little peepul