Welcome to the three martini lunch.

Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

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So glad you're with us for the Wednesday edition of the three martini lunch and Jim,

the Democrats can talk about their economic fantasies all they want, but reality

keeps smacking them in the face. In fact, some of the most left-wing corporate figures

all seem to keep leaving blue states and going to red states, sometimes by themselves,

sometimes they're dragging their entire companies with them. The latest example is Starbucks, you know, that bastion of conservatism.

Howard Schultz, big lefty, tried to run for president, but then the party hated him because he wanted to run as an independent.

Well, he is now basically retired, but Starbucks itself is moving to Nashville, Tennessee.

Their chief operating officer, Mike Graham, says Starbucks has great ambitions to grow even further across North America with these growth plans.

We see Nashville, Tennessee as an ideal location to open an office and establish a more

strategic presence in the southeast region of the United States.

Well, Tennessee also doesn't have any income tax, and I'm guessing it's a friendly or economic climate than a lot of blue states, and certainly Washington State, which we'll talk about in a

moment.

Schultz, who's worth about $3.5 billion, is moving to Florida, which also has no income tax and

also has no death tax, but he says he's moving there because of the sunshine.

And it's attraction to his kids and their kids who live on the East Coast, so it's closer.

That's why he's moving to Florida.

Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that Washington State, the legislature there, just passed a 9.9%.

So a 10% tax on adjusted gross household income above $1 million a year.

So that's combined.

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