“If any new taxes are levied on me, or my company, as our current President plans, I will have no choice but to reduce the size of this company.”
David Siegal, Florida’s Real Estate entrepreneur has built himself a new and larger “American Versailles.” The real estate mogul claims he was “personally responsible” for George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential victory. He also goes on to say that his tactics for helping Bush win “may not necessarily have been legal.”
After Gawker published this quote piece, they spoke to Siegel, who confirmed that he sent the email and that he based it off a chain email that went around before the 2008 elections. “It speaks the truth and it gives [employees] something to think about when they go to the polls,” he told Gawker.
Another Florida entrepreneur, the owner of Sears, recently uprooted his managers from Connecticut, moving to Florida to avoid personal income taxes.