Buddy Foy Jr., who owns restaurants in Florida and New York, says it will be 'very difficult' to get people to return to New York after operating without state income taxes in Florida during the pandemic.
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estimated thirty three thousand New York City
residents left for the sunshine
state between fall, two thousand and twenty and
July the mayoral candidate, Eric
Adams is hoping he can bring
them back.
Adams telling Wall Street
Journal if hes elected, telling
all new Yorkers that live in
Florida bring your butt back to
New York. But the question is:
will it work
one of business owners to
Florida and taking most of his
business with him, and he joins
us now
buddy? What do you think
this guy may be the next mayor
to New York? Can he convince you
to bring your butt back to New
York?
Well, he mayor to New York
City,
the tax break Sunshine state
its going to be very difficult
to pull that off
Lawrence. So what was the
motivating factor for you going
to Florida? Was it the taxes,
low crime? What was it?
It was covid.
It was a free state.
We had restaurant in up state. I
had employees that didnt want
to stay home and we got shut
down at 1000, p dot m.
We took a big risk. Florida was
open for business and worked out
for us,
so we were forced to move there.
We would have not done it
without policies taking place,
but now that we are there, we are
seeing the benefits of taxation
and the overall way they run the
city from a freedom perspective,
and we are Orphism Florida
residence
Lawrence Buddy. Could you ever
see yourself coming back to New
York
im coming back? In the summer
time
we have business in New York
that we are operating seasonal.
Only
we did stay open. We did em my
people and did pay New York
taxes. Now we will be saying our
New York sales taxes and, as far
as everything else goes, no, we
do not see ourselves moving back
to New York
Lawrence. The mainstream media
has a way of covering it in
derogatory sense.
Tell me what its like in
Florida
Lawrence its freedom,
people are respecting. Each
other theyve got masks if
theyre feeling sickment. No one
is hopping on people. Are you
vaccinated
its a freedom state,
its like living in the USA,
its phenomenal
buddy? We love it
Lawrence when you get a taste
of freedom, its hard to return.
Transcript generated on 2021-09-06.