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RUSH: So LeBron James, ladies and gentlemen, has followed me in moving to Florida, as did Tiger Woods. I\u2019m talking about the move to the Miami Heat. I, of course, am the trendsetter. I am the one who\u2019s on the cutting edge. It was in 1997 that I decamped New York City. I love New York City, don\u2019t misunderstand, it\u2019s just silly to pay their tax rate, which 12-point some odd percent on top of the federal bite. LeBron James and I would be paying over 52, 53% off the top, just state and federal. I think it\u2019s partly one of the reasons why LeBron James came down here. It\u2019s one of the reasons Tiger Woods lives in Florida, no state income tax, of course! Now, he\u2019ll never say it, unlike I will say it, he\u2019ll never say, doesn\u2019t want people to think he\u2019s a mercenary guy, he\u2019s in this for championships, you see. But make no mistake about it, if you\u2019re going to be paid $96 million a year in both places, and that\u2019s the deal, for five years, and it\u2019s going to cost you an additional $12 million to do it in New York, and then if you think to yourself, ‘I\u2019m not big enough to carry a team by myself. I\u2019m not Michael Jordan. I\u2019m not Kobe. I need a support staff. I need Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh,\u2019 then Miami is ideal. <\/p>\n

These guys have been cooking this up from what I understand, Bosh, Dwyane Wade and LeBron have been planning this for a couple years. I have no doubt, no question whatsoever that the tax bite is part of this. You remember New York, Sinatra, ‘If you can make it here you can make it anywhere.\u2019 It\u2019s true, too, by the way. And for people in the performing arts such as me, making it in New York\u2019s a big deal. It\u2019s a huge career objective and goal. Now, LeBron James is going to be in New York a number of times and he will pay the per diem taxes, they will make sure that he does on every Miami Heat trip into New York. But Florida is now where the achievers come to keep winning, led by me. I was first, now LeBron James has followed me here. What was it Governor Paterson said about me, something like New York\u2019s better off without me or something like, ‘If I\u2019d-a known that Limbaugh would leave New York, I would have raised taxes sooner.\u2019 Well, okay, Governor Paterson, will you say that about LeBron James? If I had known that I could keep LeBron James off the Knicks I would have raised taxes sooner. <\/p>\n

Spike Lee is two things. He\u2019s a hemorrhoid and a fanatical Knick fan, and he combines the two when he\u2019s at Knicks games. Ask Reggie Miller. So confiscatory taxes in New York, was it a factor for LeBron James? No question. Every time Miami plays the Knicks, every time LeBron runs up the court past Spike Lee or down the court past Spike Lee, the liberal director of the telecast has to wonder, ‘Was it the high taxes,\u2019 because I know Spike Lee tried to get him to come and Spike Lee was like, ‘What happened? So anyway, interesting, LeBron James going to Miami. And the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, man by the name of Dan Gilbert, now, I can\u2019t say that Dan Gilbert is a friend of mine, but he is a business associate. Dan Gilbert, among many other properties, owns Quicken Loans, and they have been a client and sponsor of this program. They\u2019re headquartered in Detroit. I\u2019ve been up there, I\u2019ve met them and his staff a number of times, and they run the Cavalier operation out of that office. When I was there the last time, I think it was summertime, I was up there for an appearance and they had their draft board, they had something on the wall, they were very proud of it.<\/p>\n

Dan Gilbert, I\u2019ve never heard an owner speak of any player like this, and clearly there have been players in professional sports about whom owners could have spoken this way. But Dan Gilbert, owner of the Cavaliers, basically said that LeBron James quit during all but one of the playoff games in this recent NBA playoff, just quit, did not want to win. He said, ‘Look, the curse that is Cleveland leaves town with LeBron James. The Cleveland curse goes to Miami now. We got a better chance of winning,\u2019 said Dan Gilbert, ‘without LeBron James than we did with him.\u2019 This is an open letter from the majority owner Dan Gilbert to the fans on a website of the Cleveland Cavaliers. ‘I personally guarantee the Cleveland Cavaliers will win an NBA championship before the self-titled former king wins one,\u2019 meaning LeBron James. Snerdley says, ‘How\u2019s he going to pull that off?\u2019 You watch, I\u2019ll roll my dice with Gilbert on this. You talk about supreme motivation now. <\/p>\n

At any rate, this was a really strange thing last night. I found a couple things LeBron James said very strange after all he\u2019s given to Cleveland, all my talents, poured out my soul to Cleveland and he talked about the fans being good to him, too, of course. But basically the reason that I held out some thought that it was not going to be Miami, that he was going to stay in Cleveland is that if it were me, let\u2019s give an analogy. I am going to leave the EIB Network. Let\u2019s just say that, and I\u2019m gonna go and take my talents and services and form another network somewhere else. I\u2019ve been with the EIB Network 21 years, and everybody\u2019s all excited about where I\u2019m going to go and what it might mean for what station I\u2019ll be on in whatever town in which they live, and let\u2019s say I schedule a three-hour radio show to announce my decision. If I were going to leave the EIB Network, I would not schedule a three-hour radio show to announce it. That\u2019s just not cool. One of the reasons I thought he wasn\u2019t going to leave Cleveland was that this is not the way you do it. If you\u2019re going to leave someplace, this is just not classy. So obviously I was wrong about that. Very rarely do I say that, very rarely indeed. Even in basketball, folks, and I know the stick-to-the-issues crowd is shouting obscenities at the radio and sending me e-mails, but it is what it is, and this is issue oriented, this is cultural, this is economic. Here\u2019s what I said July 1st. This is the 9th. This is what I said July 1st.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Now, I\u2019m going to make a prediction. (interruption) What, Snerdley, what, what? Yeah, okay. You\u2019re making my prediction come true even before I make it. Snerdley said, ‘Well, there\u2019s more to New York than the taxes. New York versus Miami, come on!\u2019 Yeah, I\u2019ve made that call, and where am I? In fact, for a guy like LeBron Miami is more — I mean, you got South Beach down there, you got Dwyane Wade down there playing for the Heat.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And, by the way, American Airlines Arena is not in South Beach. You don\u2019t play basketball in — South Beach is party central. When he said I\u2019m going to take my talents to South Beach, well, what party talents is he taking to South Beach, because where he\u2019s going to play basketball is in the American Airlines Arena, which is in Miami, it\u2019s not in South Beach. I mean, it\u2019s right across the body of water, you still gotta take a bridge to get over there. Here\u2019s LeBron James last night announcing — this is after a three-hour, 20-minute Sports Center. This is his announcement.<\/p>\n

JAMES: This fall I\u2019m going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whoa. And here is on the Scarborough show this morning on MessNBC\u2019s talking to Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson.<\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: He went to the Miami market, and fantastic, it\u2019s a lot of fun down there on South Beach, so Willie Geist tells me, but it\u2019s not the same as winning in New York, Boston, or LA, or Chicago. It just seems like a very strange choice if he\u2019s interested in the history books.<\/p>\n

BRZEZINSKI: All right.<\/p>\n

ROBINSON: You\u2019re right. I understand — I hear is there something about lower taxes in Florida?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, the Limbaugh Echo Syndrome. I hear there\u2019s something about lower taxes in Florida. So here you have, in the midst of the — do you believe this? The Obama administration has to go out and make a statement they are pro-business. If you have to go out and make a statement you are pro-business there must be some question about it, and we\u2019ve documented for you all of these private sector titans, from Mort Zuckerman to Ferguson, professor at Harvard. Now John Malone of Liberty Media has chimed in, thinking of moving his company out of Colorado, giant communications company, because of corporate taxes. I mean it is pervasive, it\u2019s spreading everywhere. The regime is, ‘No, no, no, we\u2019re pro-business.\u2019 Can you imagine, first time in American history an American president has had to call a press conference and do a public appearance to assure people that he is pro-business! Stop and think of that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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