Sean Hannity, host of Fox News’ “The Sean Hannity Show” and “Hannity,” announced on Tuesday that he was for the first time broadcasting from his new home: Florida.
He said “We are now beginning our first broadcast from my new home, and that is in the free state of Florida!” And then he celebrated the move by parodying the tune “New York, New York” made famous by crooner Frank Sinatra in 1944.
Sinatra belted out:
I wanna wake up in a city that doesn’t sleep
And find I’m king of the hill, top of the heap…
A number one, king of the hill…
If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere
It’s up to you, New York, New York!
No, thank you, crooned Hannity:
I am done, I’m finished. New York, New York. Goodbye.
Florida, Florida. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere!
It’s taken decades of Democratic leadership to change New York into a place where people stay only because they can’t move. Hannity earns north of $50 million a year, including his salaries for this talk shows on Fox. In addition he turns a nice dollar from his four books and rental real estate portfolio.
That means he pays New York Democrats running the city and state more than $5 million every year in taxes, probably much more. In Florida, however, the state income tax is zero. Translation: he keeps that $5 million invested where it’s likely to do much more good than New York Democrats would do with it.
It’s not just the financial advantage, either. Said Hannity:
And finally, for the first time that I can think of in my adult life, I actually have representatives in the state that I’m living in that share my values.
I have a governor by the name of Ron DeSantis and Senators Marco Rubio and … Rick Scott. So I’m feeling a lot better about it….
He then said that he might have waited too long to make the move: “I’m probably late and behind the curve and many others have made the move beforehand.”
Those others include Donald J. Trump, Joe Scarborough (the MSNBC host who owns a home in Jupiter, Florida), Fox News host Bret Baier, and author and political pundit Ann Coulter, each of whom owns a home in Palm Beach, Florida.
And likely for the same reasons. Hannity said his move is “obvious” if tardy, joining “this migration out of blue states [like New York] with high taxes, burdensome regulations, high crime [and] horrible school districts.”
According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the five states attracting the largest number of new residents — Florida, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee — all have Republican-controlled legislatures and (except for North Carolina) Republican governors.
On the other hand, the five states that lost the most residents — California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey, and Massachusetts — all have Democrat-controlled legislatures, with Massachusetts being the only one of the five with a Republican governor.
